Kenya: Rape on the rise in post-election violence
Amid the violence that engulfed several residential areas of the Kenyan capital following the declaration of controversial results of the presidential elections, women in particular have been targeted, with at least one hospital reporting a rise in the number of rape victims seeking treatment.
The Nairobi Women's Hospital said it had on 31 December received 19 rape cases, almost double the daily average.
Violence erupted mostly in the slums of Nairobi and other areas soon after the Electoral Commission of Kenya announced that incumbent President Mwai Kibaki had won the poll, beating his opposition rival challenger Raila Odinga, who immediately rejected the result citing alleged rigging of the poll in Kibaki's favour.
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