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A policeman tries to control pigs left by protesters outside parliament in Nairobi, Kenya, during a demonstration against lawmakers' salary demands on May 14, 2013.

Kenyan demonstrators released two dozen piglets and poured blood on the pavement at the gates of parliament in Nairobi on Tuesday to protest lawmakers' demands for a wage hike, Agence France-Presse reports.

"We will not allow members of parliament to increase their salaries at will," shouted Okiya Omtatah, one of the protest organizers. "They are greedy just like the pigs we have brought here."

Lawmakers' pay is currently $6,300 per month, Reuters reports, but they have demanded a raise to about $10,100 per month, which is 130 times the legal minimum wage in Kenya. 

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Protestors carry placards as they participate in a demonstration against lawmakers' salary demands in Nairobi on May 14, 2013.

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A protester squats by piglets at the gates of parliament in Nairobi on May 14, 2013.

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Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi is arrested during a demonstration outside parliament in Nairobi on May 14, 2013. The protesters had intended to occupy parliament but were dispersed, while some were beaten by police and arrested.

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Riot police stand by the gates of parliament during a demonstration against members of parliament who have demanded higher wages in Nairobi on May 14, 2013.

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A Kenya Wildlife Services vet administers a drug to a tranquilized wild elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, on Thursday, March 14, 2013. The International Fund for Animal Welfare School of Field Studies and KWS partnered to fit tracking collars to elephants in and around the park. The exercise has cost $100,000 US and will monitor six elephants for 20 months to ascertain migratory routes and other data. There are currently 60 collared elephants in Kenya out of a total population of around 37,000.

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A wild elephant mother tries to help her tranquilized juvenile offspring after it was darted by a Kenya Wildlife Services vet.

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A Kenya Wildlife Services vet holds a tranquilizer gun as he views wild elephants from a helicopter in Amboseli National Park, Kenya on Thursday, March 14, 2013.

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A Kenyan woman walks through the African Inland Church in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on March 10, one day after Uhuru Kenyatta was declared winner in the Kenyan presidential elections.

One morning in January 2008, more than 200 young men armed with crude weapons stormed the Africa Inland Church in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi, Kenya, and seized a generator that they then set on fire. The explosion tore through the roof, creating one of the most visible scenes of post-election violence after Kenya's disputed election of 2007. 

The dark spot is a constant reminder of the church's vulnerability during national elections. But for Rev. Joshua Kimuyu there was no question of keeping its doors shut this Sunday, the day after Kenya's election commission announced the winner of the East African country's fiercely contested presidential election. This time, Kimuyu said, there was nothing to fear after the two leading candidates -winner Uhuru Kenyatta and loser Raila Odinga -pleaded for calm and unity. Continue reading.

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Slideshow: Kenyans vote in crucial election

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Five years after more than 1,200 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls in a nationwide election seen as the most important in the country's 50-year history since independence.

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Previously on PhotoBlog:

• 'Spoiled' ballots could be critical as Kenya anxiously awaits election results
• Kenya braces for elections, Odinga supporters rally

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Kenyans listen to a man speaking as residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi discuss the incoming election results in the Kenyan capital on March 5.

By Jason Straziuso, Rodney Muhumuza, The Associated Press

A slow ballot count in Kenya's presidential election raised questions Tuesday about the election process, but it was the more than 325,000 "spoiled ballots" that emerged as a potentially bigger issue.

More than 325,000 ballots — a number that keeps rising — have been thrown out for not following election rules, raising criticism of the electoral commission's voter education efforts. Those spoiled ballots, as they are called in Kenya, could still play a huge role on the election math and whether a runoff is declared for the top two candidates. Continue reading.

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Kenyans watch the provisional results for the presidential candidates as they are announced on television, at a restaurant in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on March 5.

Slideshow: Kenyans vote in crucial election

Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

Five years after more than 1,200 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls in a nationwide election seen as the most important in the country's 50-year history since independence.

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Related: Kenya braces for elections, Odinga supporters rally

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Supporters of Raila Odinga are pictured here traveling home after a major rally in Kisumu town on March 1, 2013. Kisumu town is the home of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, and a hotbed of support for ODM and CORD. Kenya is to hold general elections on March 4.

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Supporters of Raila Odinga celebrate as Raila takes the stage during a major rally in Kisumu town on March 1, 2013.

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Supporters of Raila Odinga are pictured during a major rally in Kisumu town on March 1, 2013.

By Edmund Blair, Reuters

Kenyans choose a new president on Monday in a closely fought election that has divided the east African nation and raised fears of a repeat of the bloodshed that followed the tightly contested race five years ago.

Rival tribe members wielding machetes, knives, and bows and arrows butchered more than 1,200 people after the disputed 2007 vote, shattering Kenya's reputation as one of the continent's most stable democracies and dealing a heavy blow to east Africa's biggest economy from which it is only now recovering.

The government has spent five years trying to rebuild confidence with a reformed judiciary and newly appointed police commanders. Church preachers and civil society groups have brought politicians and rival voters together in rallies in Nairobi's central park to appeal for a peaceful vote.

Yet, this year's race is haunted by the past. One of the top two candidates, Uhuru Kenyatta, 51, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for instigating the violence after the 2007 race. And tribal loyalties will again largely determine who backs Kenyatta or his main rival Raila Odinga, 68.

Continue reading.

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A Kenya Wildlife Service warder inspects a section of elephant tusks. Police in Kenya have seized two tonnes of ivory worth $1.15 million, the biggest haul on record in the East African country.

By James Macharia, Reuters

"This is a big catch, the biggest ever single seizure of ivory at the port of Mombasa," said Kiberenge Seroney, the port's police officer in charge of criminal investigations.

"We fail to understand where one gathers the courage to park such enormous quantities of ivory, hoping that they can slip through our security systems."

Poaching is a growing problem for sub-Saharan African countries reliant on rich wildlife in their game reserves to draw foreign tourists.  Full story

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A worker arranges elephant tusks recovered from a container on transit, at the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Jan15.

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Kenyan police officers detain a man in the Somali district of Eastleigh in Nairobi on Monday.

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A youth of non-Somali ethinicity is armed with stones on Monday during inter-ethnic clashes in Nairobi's Eastleigh suburb.

Reuters reports — Kenyan police fired tear gas to disperse rioters who attacked ethnic Somalis in the Nairobi district known as "Little Mogadishu" on Monday, hurling rocks and smashing windows after a weekend bomb attack there killed nine people.

The violence coincided with the start of voter registration for a general election in March, adding to security concerns ahead of the first national polls since 2007 when a dispute over the results fuelled ethnic slaughter that killed more than 1,200 people and forced some 300,000 from their homes.

Angry mobs broke into Somali homes and shops in anger at Sunday's attack on a minibus which killed at least nine people in Nairobi's Eastleigh district which is dominated by Somali Kenyans and their ethnic kin who have fled fighting in Somalia.

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Angry ethnic Somali youths shout slogans as they face off Kenyan youths during a riot in the predominantly Somali neighborhood of Eastleigh in Nairobi on Monday.

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A Kenyan Police officer with a guard dog tries to control a crowd in the Somali district of Eastleigh in Nairobi on Monday. Kenyan residents in Eastleigh turned on Somalis and attacked their shops and stalls, accusing them of being responsible for a bomb on Sunday.

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A suspected looter is restrained by a policeman with a dog in the Somali district of Eastleigh in Nairobi on Monday.

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A man bleeds after he was attacked with machetes by people of Somali ethnicity on Monday during inter-ethnic clashes in Nairobi's Eastleigh suburb.

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Mathare slum residents escape from a cloud of tear gas thrown by the police during the second day of skirmishes in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Kenya's capital Nairobi on November 19, 2012.

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Relatives of U.S. President Barack Obama sing and dance as they run along a dirt road during celebrations for his re-election at his ancestral home village of Nyangoma Kogelo, 367 miles west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, on November 7, 2012.

Villagers in western Kenya danced, cheered and waved branches in the air to celebrate Barack Obama's re-election Wednesday as news of his victory resonated far beyond American shores.

A crowd had gathered to watch television coverage in Kogelo, where Obama's late father was raised, and the president's step-grandmother wore a delighted smile after the result was announced.

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President Obama's step-grandmother Sarah Onyango Obama smiles during a press conference held after Obama's victory was announced in Nyang'oma Kogelo village, where President Barack Obama's late father Barack Obama Sr. was raised and Sarah lives, on November 7, 2012.

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Kenyan supporters of Barack Obama react as they watch the news coverage announcing Obama's victory in Nyang'oma Kogelo village on November 7, 2012.

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Villagers ride motorcycles and wave branches to celebrate Barack Obama's re-election, in the village of Kogelo on Nov. 7, 2012.

At the elementary school where Obama studied as a boy in Jakarta, Indonesia, students happily marched with a poster of the president from one classroom to another after hearing that he had defeated Mitt Romney, Reuters reported. "Obama wins ... Obama wins again," they shouted.

World leaders welcome Obama's 2nd term - but many challenges wait on his doorstep

A statue of a young "Barry" Obama, as he was called as a child, stands outside the school.  "I want to be like him, the president," student Alexander Ananta said.

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Students at State Elementary School Menteng 01, where U.S. President Barack Obama studied from 1970-1971, cheer in support of Obama while watching television coverage of the U.S. presidential election in Jakarta, Indonesia, Nov. 7.

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A U.S. citizen watches the live telecast of U.S. presidential election results in Mumbai, India, Nov 7, 2012.

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Staff and relatives of the Obama Onsen, or Obama hot spring, resort area shout "banzai," or cheers, in celebration next to a doll of Barack Obama in Unzen, Japan, Nov. 7. The banner reads "Ganbare (Cheers) Obama."

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Slideshow: Election 2012

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Campaigning with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, voting and election results.

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A Kenyan soldier stands guard in the center of the southern Somali port city of Kismayu on Oct. 5.

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Unexploded ordnance, including rocket-propelled grenades and mortar shells left behind by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab, are destroyed in a controlled detonation in Kismayu on Oct. 5.

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Kenyan soldiers patrol in Kismayu.

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Kenyan soldiers patrol Kismayu on Oct. 5.

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A fighter of the pro-governmnet Ras Kimboni Brigade stands with a belt-fed machine gun inside the former compound housing the offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) during a combat engineering team's sweep for unexploded ordnance in Kismayu on Oct. 5.

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• Somalia pirate dens see decline as international efforts to stop seizures succeed
• Somalia marks one year since Islamist militants were driven out of Mogadishu

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The injured captain of a Somalia-bound Ugandan attack helicopter lies next to the crash site at Mount Kenya, on Aug. 13. Uganda said on Monday the pilot and four crew of the helicopter that made an emergency landing in Kenya had been rescued but two other gunships and ten crew members were still missing in the same area.

Reuters -- Uganda said on Monday the pilot and four crew of a Somalia-bound Ugandan attack helicopter that made an emergency landing in Kenya had been rescued but two other gunships and ten crew members were still missing in the same area.

Poor weather early on Monday hampered a search and rescue operation for the three Russian-built Mi-24 helicopter gunships that went down in the Mount Kenya region on Sunday while en route to reinforcing AU forces in Somalia.

Felix Kulayigye, a spokesman for the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), said one pilot managed to send out a distress signal after making an emergency landing.

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A Somalia-bound Ugandan attack helicopter is pictured at Mount Kenya, on Aug. 13.

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The injured captain of a Somalia-bound Ugandan attack helicopter is strapped on a stretcher at the crash site on Mount Kenya, August 13, 2012.

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Photos by Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

Search and rescue personnel carry a woman rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Nairobi, Kenya on June 9, 2012.

Standard Media reports:

One person is feared dead, scores trapped as a four-storey building collapsed in the sprawling Mlolongo area in Nairobi, Kenya.

The building, which was still under construction, collapsed at 6pm leaving several occupants, including customers in a restaurant, trapped in the debris.

A firefighter cuts steel to retrieve the trapped body of a construction worker.

A search and rescue team survey the rubble.

A search and rescue team work late to clear rubble.

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Children studying at night using a flame on a stick in their manyatta (mud-thatch home) at Kisima in Samburu county, Kenya. Photos taken on May 24, 2012 and made available to msnbc.com today.

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Agence France Presse released these pictures as part of a report on energy use in Kenya. At present, only about 18% of the country's households have access to power, according to figures from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), while peak demand for electricity is forecast to increase from 1,200 MW to 15,000 MW by 2030.

But ambitious plans to bolster hydro-power with wind, geothermal and solar projects could enable Kenya to become a zero-emission economy in the field of electricity generation in the coming years, according to some estimates cited by the UNEP.

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