KENYA-VOTE

Ballot boxes at Manyatta Primary School polling station in Langata, a suburb of Nairobi, are checked at dawn by officials from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) before voting opens on March 4, 2013 during the elections. Long lines of Kenyans queued from way before dawn to vote Monday in the first election since the violence-wracked polls five years ago, with a deadly police ambush hours before polling started marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Kenya, with leaders vowing to avoid a repeat of the bloody 2007-8 post-poll violence in which over 1,100 people were killed and observers repeatedly warning of the risk of renewed conflict. AFP PHOTO / GEORGINA GOODWIN (Photo credit should read Georgina Goodwin/AFP via Getty Images)