Opposition wins landslide victory in Kenyan elections

Veteran politician Mwai Kibaki and his opposition alliance have won a landslide victory in Kenyan elections, breaking the ruling party’s 39-year grip on power, according to figures from an independent body monitoring the election.

With most of the votes counted, the 71-year-old economist, who is leader of the National Rainbow Coalition, had a 33 percentage point lead over Uhuru Kenyatta, candidate for the Kenya African National Union, or Kanu – the party that has ruled this East African nation since independence from Britain in 1963, the Institute for Education in Democracy said.