Students Alliance for Raila members demonstrate near Kenya's supreme court building where other supporters of the Raila Odinga led CORD alliance gathered on March 16, 2013 to express support for a petition challenging the outcome of Kenya's general election. Kenya's outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who was narrowly defeated in presidential polls by Uhuru Kenyatta, filed a formal challenge Saturday against the result. Officials from Odinga's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) filed the suit at the Supreme Court after Odinga spoke to supporters and journalists in front of his offices.
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Outgoing Kenya Prime minister Raila Odinga led CORD makes an address outside his offices on March 16, 2013 before he formaly filed a petition at Kenya's supreme court to challenge the outcome of the Kenya's general election.
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An aerial shot shows supporters of the Raila Odinga led CORD alliance gathered on March 16, 2013, outside Kenya's supreme court building to express support for a petition challenging the outcome of Kenya's general election.
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A supporter of the Raila Odinga led CORD alliance tramples a poster of Kenya's president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta on March 16, 2013, outside Kenya's supreme court building where the youth had gathred to express support for a petition challenging the outcome of Kenya's general election.
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Supporters of the Raila Odinga led CORD alliance confront the police while displaying a bloodied shirt on March 16, 2013, outside Kenya's supreme court building, that belonged to one of them who was injured by a tear gas canister fired by police at youth who had gathered to express support for a petition challenging the outcome of Kenya's general election.
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Raila Odinga lost Kenya's presidential elections to his deputy Uhuru Kenyatta by a slim margin; his supporters gathered in front of the Supreme Court to support his appeal of the election.
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