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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 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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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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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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Members of the public assist firefighters at the scene of a blast in central Nairobi, Kenya on May 28, 2012.

Updated at 10.05 a.m. ET -- Reuters reports — A blast struck a shopping complex in Nairobi's business district during Monday's lunch hour, wounding more than two dozen people, but there was confusion over whether the explosion was caused by a bomb or electrical fault.

Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere told reporters it was too early to determine the cause of the blast. He said blackened wires inside the trading center indicated a possible electrical fault and ruled out a grenade attack.

Two shopkeepers, however, told Reuters independently that they saw a man drop a bag inside the trading center moments before the blast.

"He came into the shop twice, looking at T-shirts. He said he didn't have money so he left. Then he came back," said Irene Wachira. "(He was) three shops away from where I was. He left a bag and a few moments later we had an explosion. The roof caved in and debris started falling on us," Wachira said. 

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An injured woman is carried to an ambulance.

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Civilians attempt to extinguish a fire in a clothing shop after the explosion. Dense black smoke billowed from the badly damaged building and sirens blared as emergency service crews rushed to Moi Avenue, a major road running through the city center.