Kenyan president concedes referendum defeat

Kenyans soundly rejected a constitution that critics said did too little to limit presidential powers, its chief proponent President Mwai Kibaki conceded today.

The vote, after a bitter campaign in which at least seven people died in referendum-related violence, delivered the most serious setback yet to Kibaki, who is accused of having done too little to set himself apart from the corruption and autocracy long associated with politics in the east African country.