BBC News with Sue Montgomery.

Uhuru Kenyatta who has been confirmed as the winner of Kenya’s presidential election has promised to work with all his countrymen without discrimination. Earlier the Supreme Court upheld the election result and dismissed the challenge by his main

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Raila Odinga. Mr. Odinga told the BBC that while he didn't agree with all of the court’s findings, he respected the decision and wanted to avoid bloodshed. Two people have been killed in unrest in the western city of Kisumu, following the Supreme Court ruling. Our Africa editor Richard Hamilton reports.

By accepting the court’s decision so quickly, Raila Odinga seems to have prevented a dissent into bloodshed that so many had feared. The prime minister said Kenyan should not let elections divide them and predicted that the future was bright. For his part, Mr. Kenyatta called his former

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his brother and urged him to work together with the new government. However no one is under any

illusion

that the new president will enjoy a honeymoon in period. He is due to go on

trial

at the ICC in the Hague in relation to the

violence

that followed the 2007 election.

Large savers at the Bank of Cyprus, the country’s biggest commercial lender, could see as much as 60% of their deposits wiped out as the result of the European bailout deal. The Central Bank has confirmed the figure which is higher than previously thought. People with more than 100,000 Euros will have 37.5% of their savings converted into near worthless shares. Another 22.5% of their funds will be frozen without interest.