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Kisumu residents watch the presidential debate in a barbershop. Kenya's third largest city, the stronghold of candidate
Raila Odinga, erupted in violence after it was announced Odinga had lost the 2007 vote.
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Fearing a repeat of the last election crisis, many Kenyans are preemptively leaving cities.
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Winnie Kashoka, a Kikuyu shopkeeper in the
Luo-dominated city of Kisumu, will return to her hometown of Nyeri
before the election results are announced. After the last vote her store
was looted and she fled town for several months.
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Overnight buses to Kisumu leave from a downtown station
in Nairobi. Bus fares increase steeply before holidays and during
election season in Kenya.
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Residents in the Fort Jesus neighborhood of Kibera constructed high walls to secure their homes inside.
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Suitcases are transported to the Machakos bus station in Nairobi.
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An overnight bus waits for passengers at the Olympic bus depot in Kibera.
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A campaign poster for presidential candidate Raila Odinga hangs in a hair salon in Kibera. The slum is part of Odinga's constituency and was hard hit by violence after the last elections.
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Amina, a Nubian woman living in Kibera, will stay
during the elections. Nubians were the original settlers of Kibera, now
one of Nairobi's largest slums.
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Minibuses, known as "matatus" in Swahili, leave from downtown Nairobi to upcountry destinations all over Kenya. In the days before the election, many Nairobi residents leave town for their ancestral homelands.
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Schools in Kibera are closing for at least one week during the elections.