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.

KENYA’S president signed a new constitution into law yesterday that institutes a US-style system of checks and balances and has been hailed as the most significant political event since Kenya’s independence nearly a half century ago.

Thousands of people living in a makeshift camp in Kenya were today told that Ireland and the international community would do all in its power to help them return to their farms and homes.