NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya braced for further protests Friday as the Supreme Court was expected to rule on the opposition's challenge to last month's presidential election, with police deployed to sensitive areas of the capital, Nairobi. Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga and his National Super Alliance (NASA) had taken the case to court, claiming the system transmitting votes had been hacked, and that forms from polling stations that were meant to back up the electronic results were not being uploaded. The annulment of the election result was a rare win for supporters of the veteran opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who brought the case against Kenyatta's win to the Supreme Court. The August 11 declaration of Kenyatta's victory with 54.27 percent of the vote -- with not all the tallying forms in -- sparked two days of protests in the slums of Nairobi and Kisumu, traditional opposition strongholds. After initially appearing to accept the decision, President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday went on the offensive, stating there was a problem with the judiciary and he was going to fix it. This year's election bid was the fourth attempt for the 72-year-old, whose father was Kenya's first vice president. But while the ruling "upholds the constitution" adopted in 2010, "it will put a lot of question marks on the international observers, who have massively said the election day went well," an African diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity. But the unrest following last month's election was far calmer than the post-election violence a decade ago that left more than 1,000 people dead.
Seven schoolgirls are killed and ten hospitalised after a fire at the Moi Girls School in Nairobi, Kenya.