Will he go to the courts again to challenge the poll that he’s dismissed as a sham?

Despite calls by President Uhuru Kenyatta for Kenyans to reach out after a divisive and protracted electoral period, the country remains on a knife edge.

At least 14 people have died since the re-run poll last Thursday.

And the death toll since the August election overturned by the Supreme Court is at least 70.

Most worrying is that violence between political opponents is taking on an increasingly ethnic character, reminiscent of the 2008 conflict that left 1 500 people dead.

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At least 18 people have died in deadly clashes these past weeks, many involving the youth wing of the ruling party.

Burundian security forces have started dismantling barricades set up by protestors in the capital Bujumbura.

President Pierre Nkurunziza, who’s officially registered his candidacy for the elections on June 26, has branded the demonstrators terrorists.

They, in turn, have called his ban on protests a declaration of war and vowed to be back on the streets today.

Tens of thousands of Burundians have fled to neighbouring countries to escape the violence.

Most of them have gone to Rwanda where, like in Burundi, political instability spiralled into ethnic conflict and genocide.

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