4 Kenya electoral commissioners disown election results

Kenya’s ex-Prime Minister Raila Odinga has declared the election results as null and void. The runner up candidate’s position is in line with four electoral commissioners who do not agree with the announcement by the head of the electoral commission Wafula Chebukati, in declaring Vice President William Ruto, as the winner of the poll.

Also on the programme, in Angola we speak to the only female candidate in the upcoming elections; seeking to find out what the pressing issues are for Angola’s citizens, as the country gears up to hold its fifth multiparty elections next Wednesday.

And we head to Mali, where France has declared that its last soldiers based on the Gao military camp has left. This effectively puts an end to 9 years military operation. Economist Dominique Yamb Ntima tells us what this would mean for the sahel region.

Plus, Zimbabwean singer songwriter, Nutty O has been talking to DJ Edu, presenter of This Is Africa, on the BBC World Service.

Photo: Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Vice-Chairperson Juliana Cherera and commissioners Francis Wanderi, Irene Masit and Justus Nyang'aya, arrive to address a news conference where they disowned the presidential elections results in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Reuters