NAIROBI — Kenya should create more senior political posts including that of prime minister and increase payments to regional governments to try to end cyclical election violence, a government report said on Wednesday. The report, which also recommended cutting government spending, was drawn up by a commission formed following a reconciliation between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival Raila Odinga after a national election in which 100 people, most of them protesters, were killed in a national election in 2017. Voting shows strong ethnic patterns, and so does the political violence that often follows. A 2010 constitution devolved many powers and some funding to 47 newly created counties in an earlier attempt to prevent election violence. The report also proposed the runner-up of the presidential election become the official leader of the opposition, a new post.

Source: National Post November 27, 2019 13:30 UTC