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best "to deliver a free and fair" election. A spokesman for Kenyatta's campaign did not respond to calls for comment, but at a public event in the coastal city of Mombasa on Tuesday Kenyatta asked the Odinga team not to talk about the election "in a way that might incite Kenyans. "Let us remain calm and wait," the Daily Nation quoted Kenyatta as saying. Odinga has told supporters in recent days he believes he was robbed of votes and that he was the rightful winner. The Supreme Court has until a week from Saturday to rule on Odinga's petition. Burck acknowledged that asking the court to nullify the March 4 results "is a significant request," but he said he thinks there is evidence of serious deficiencies across many parts of the vote process. Those, he said, include: "Bizarre and inexplicable" discrepancies between the numbers of registered voters and those that voted, often to the benefit of Kenyatta. The failure of the electronic count transmission system that was a safeguard against vote count manipulation, a failure Burck said forced officials to revert to a manual tabulation system that didn't have the necessary safeguards. A change on the eve of the election in the total number of registered voters, even though the voter rolls had already been finalized,cheap toms. Because of a vacancy, Kenya's Supreme Court currently has six justices on it, which leaves open the possibility of a split decision. Burck said he thinks the justices will try not to have a split vote that leaves doubts about the legitimacy of the election. But if they do split 3-3, Kenyatta's election win will stand, he said. Burck said he has worked elsewhere in Africa and found his way onto Odinga's legal team through those contacts,discount toms shoes. He was in the U,toms sale.S. government during the 2007 vote so followed this year's vote with interest, he said, and thought the final tally looked unlikely. "It didn't take a lot of convincing that there was something wrong here," he said. Odinga has promised to abide by the Supreme Court's decision and has urged calm among his supporters. The election process so far has not been marred by any of the violence that saw Kenya endure two months of tribe-on-tribe attacks in late 2007 and early 2008. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. An insider's guide to politics and policy, available on the iPad or as a PDF download.[标签:标题]
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) The International Committee of the Red Cross says that more than 60 people have been wounded in fighting between South Sudan's army and a rebel group. The international Red Cross says 62 people have been taken to one of their medical facilities in the last two weeks. South Sudan's army has been battling rebels led by David Yau Yau. South Sudan accuses Sudan of supporting the rebels. Khartoum denies the allegations. The group is seeing "fairly serious injuries" caused mostly by light weapons, said the international Red Cross's Ewan Watson. The number of deaths is not known because the are
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