Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta appears to have won the presidential election in the first round with the slimmest of majorities, as Kenya’s electoral commission prepared today to announce the final results of the nation’s presidential election.

President Mwai Kibaki named Raila Odinga as prime minister today, implementing a long-awaited power-sharing deal that the two rivals signed more than a month ago to resolve a protracted political crisis.

A millionaire opposition leader who cast himself as a champion of the poor appears poised to win the closest presidential election in Kenya’s history, according to preliminary and unofficial media tallies.