Kenya: IEBC - We're Tied At the Hip With Ot Morpho

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Kenya: IEBC - We're Tied At the Hip With Ot Morpho

[Nation] Kenya has no way of cutting ties with the controversial French firm whose system failure in the 2017 polls occasioned nullification of the Presidential election results and nearly plunged the country into chaos, the IEBC has stated.

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