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How Kenya's polls have treated women and incumbent MPs

Garce Onyango with founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi Odinga in 1965.

No village hamlet will be left undisturbed. For the next 10 months, dusty school playgrounds, which do not have toilets, will be used as temporary airfields as top politicians look for votes. But as the politicians crisscross the country hunting for votes, a look at the last 12 general elections paints a grim picture for incumbent MPs and women candidates.

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