
Nairobi, Kenya — Kenyan men watch television in the Kibera slum as preliminary results trickle in after Monday's general election. Kenya on Monday held its first presidential election since the 2007 vote, which ushered in months of tribal violence that killed more than 1,000 people and displaced 600,000.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jerome Delay / Associated Press
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Nairobi, Kenya — A man reads a local Kenyan newspaper as the vote counting continues.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: DANIEL IRUNGU / EPA
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Githurai, Kenya — Voters continue waiting in line at sunset to vote at a polling station north of Nairobi. The nationwide election is seen as the country's most important - and complicated - in its 50-year history.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ben Curtis / Associated Press
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Nairobi, Kenya — Military personnel stand guard at a polling station in the Kibera slum.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kabir Dhanji / EPA
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Nairobi, Kenya — An officer walks past rows of ballot boxes at a vote tallying center. With about a third of the ballots counted, provisional results showed Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces charges at the International Criminal Court, taking an early lead Tuesday.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ben Curtis / Associated Press
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Nairobi, Kenya — Staff from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission empty ballots for counting at a polling station at the Kibra Social Grounds.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: GEORGINA GOODWIN / AFP / Getty Images
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Nairobi, Kenya — Street artist Solomon Muyundo, also known as Solo7, paints a message of peace on the pavement near a polling station in the Kibera slum.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: DAI KUROKAWA / EPA
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Nairobi, Kenya — Kenyans line up to vote at a polling station in the Kibera slum.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jerome Delay / Associated Press
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Gatundu, Kenya — A woman casts her vote in the Mutumo primary school near Gatundu, north of Nairobi.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ben Curtis / Associated Press
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Ilbissil, Kenya — Masaai line up to vote in a general election.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Riccardo Gangale / Associated Press
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Nairobi, Kenya — Posters of Raila Odinga remained largely untouched in his traditional stronghold of Kibera a day after Kenyans voted.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: KABIR DHANJI / EPA
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Nairobi, Kenya — An election official checks the ID card of a voter by using the light of a mobile phone at a polling station without electricity in the Kibera slum.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kabir Dhanji / EPA
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Nairobi, Kenya — A man waits for his turn to vote at a polling station.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kabir Dhanji / EPA
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Nairobi, Kenya — A presiding officer from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission holds a ballot after emptying the box for counting at the South C polling station.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: SIMON MAINA / AFP / Getty Images
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Nairobi, Kenya — Men watch the incoming provisional election results on a television outside a shop in the Kibera slum.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: PHIL MOORE / AFP / Getty Images
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