Fear, Foreboding & Fake News In Kenya
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Strange and sinister things often happen before Kenyan elections, but recent events have left the country in shock. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' tales and insights:
In Nairobi, Alastair Leithead analyses the fallout from the murder and torture of the Kenyan election commission’s head of technology.
In Italy, Bob Walker walks the Francigena pilgrim trail amidst apocalyptic scenes caused by the wildfires that are sweeping parts of the country.
In Romania, Linda Pressly enters the world of online pornography as she explores the country’s growing live webcamming industry.
In Venezuela, political turmoil continues and Vladimir Hernandez wonders what's driving so many people to risk their lives in the ongoing street protests.
And in Germany, Rob Crossan visits the place that Elvis Presley once called home and is now preparing to remember ‘The King‘ 40 years after his death. Bad Nauheim is the town that gave him the GI Blues.
Producer: Joe Kent
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. Today we're on the Pilgrim Trail in Italy and find an apocalyptic landscape ravaged by wildfires. |
| 0:12.0 | A world away from that we visit the strange business of the |
| 0:15.5 | CAM girls of Romania who perform online for men in Europe and America on the |
| 0:20.8 | internet. Trouble in Venezuela as our correspondent returns home to find |
| 0:26.0 | rising crime, a shortage of medicines and homemade shields which are not proving very effective |
| 0:31.8 | in encounters with the police. |
| 0:34.2 | And time to put on the blue suede shoes again as we head for the German town which Elvis |
| 0:39.6 | once called home. |
| 0:42.2 | On Tuesday there are elections in Kenya for six different layers of |
| 0:46.3 | local, regional and national government. The polls suggest that the presidential |
| 0:51.0 | vote will be extremely close as the incumbent |
| 0:53.8 | president Uhiro Kenyatta faces his old rival Riala Odinga. |
| 0:58.0 | To counter rampant corruption and delay fears of a repeat of previous terrible post-election violence, a new |
| 1:06.1 | electronic voting system has been installed, which supposedly cannot be rigged. |
| 1:11.9 | Nevertheless, in Nairobi, Alistaleith Head found fear and foreboding. |
| 1:17.0 | Strange and sinister things often happen before Kenyan elections, |
| 1:22.0 | but the discovery of Chris |
| 1:23.0 | Ando's badly tortured body, a week before the vote, |
| 1:26.7 | shook the country and took everybody by surprise. |
| 1:30.6 | He wasn't just a faceless tech guy who had worked tirelessly to build an electronic voting system for the election. |
| 1:37.0 | He was the man who'd made regular media appearances to reassure people the system was safe with him. |
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