After the presidential election in Kenya, projections from the media and parties are causing unrest.
The publications on Thursday came to different interim results in the tight race between the two favorites, opposition leader Raila Odinga (77) and Vice President William Ruto (55).
Meanwhile, the official counting of votes from Tuesday's elections continues.
The electoral commission itself does not announce any interim results.
Violence has repeatedly erupted in past elections in Kenya following allegations of rigging, killing hundreds and displacing tens of thousands.
After the 2007 and 2017 elections, violent clashes brought the country to the brink of civil war.
Odinga insists that victory has been stolen from him in the past three presidential elections.
Declining voter turnout
Media, political parties and civil society groups have made their own counts based on the results reported at the more than 40,000 polling stations.
On Wednesday, the Kenyan Press Council felt compelled to point out the reasons for the different results with an explanation: the various media had started their counts in different parts of the country, so the respective strongholds had a different weight in the provisional interim results.
The official result of the electoral commission comes later because the counts of the polling stations are first brought together for each constituency, checked and then published as the official figure for each constituency.
Voter turnout this year was around 65 percent, well below the 80 percent of five years ago.
The vote took place in a difficult economic environment.
The population has not yet recovered from the economic consequences of the corona pandemic and is now also suffering from the massive price increases of the past few months.
The causes are tax increases by the government, which needs additional income due to a debt crisis, and the increased food and energy prices as a result of the war in Ukraine.