Kenya: It's All Systems Go As Elections Agency Releases Its Timelines

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Kenya: It's All Systems Go As Elections Agency Releases Its Timelines

[Nation] Kenya has four months to the 2022 General Election calendar and a year to the presidential primaries.

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