Police fire at protesters as Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in as Kenyan president

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn into office for a second term in front of tens of thousands who gathered in the country's largest stadium to celebrate what they hoped would be the end of months of election turmoil.

Police fire at protesters as Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in as Kenyan president

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn into office for a second term in front of tens of thousands who gathered in the country's largest stadium to celebrate what they hoped would be the end of months of election turmoil.

But during the ceremony police fired guns and tear gas in other parts of the capital, Nairobi, as officers attempted to stop the opposition from holding peaceful demonstrations in memory of dozens killed by police and militia during weeks of election protests.

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