Once bitten twice shy, East Africa is watching the runup to Kenya’s August polls with a justified degree of trepidation. Even though there have been atleast two elections since then, elections in Kenya will for the foreseeable future, be looked at through the prism of the violent aftermath of the 2007 polls.
As they spar, the protagonists in Kenya need to reassure the region that the present tempo of the elections, which have been peaceful up to this point; will end that way.
