BBC News
Results so far from Kenya’s presidential election put in the lead, the deputy prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta who’s been indicted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. His main rival, the Prime Minister Raila Odinga is trailing by a significant margin. Mr. Odinga’s running mate Kalonzo Musyoka said he was worried about the failure of some electronic voter registration systems but appealed for calm. The BBC’s Ann Saw is at the counting center in the capital Nairobi.
The electoral commission says that it has faced some challenges with the system, the electronic vote’s transmission system. And they have been in meetings after meetings since. There is a flurry of activity with different political party representatives meeting in small groups, members of the civil society and of course journalists who seem to not know what is going on at the moment, given that there is all seems to have stagnated.
Argentina’s holding a landmark court hearing on Operation Condor, the coordinated effort made by right-wing military rulers in Latin America in the 1970s and 80s to persecute their political opponents. Twenty five people are accused of having conspired to commit crimes against humanity including the former Argentine military rulers Jorge Rafael Videla and Reynaldo Bignone. The governments of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile and Bolivia are accused of collaborating to arrest, torture and extradite dissidents.