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    A Masaai woman casts her vote in the Kenyan general election in Ilbissil. Latest: Demand for clichés is expected to reach a peak as foreign correspondents fly in to cover the election. “We anticipate a run on ‘hotly contested’ and ‘neck and neck’” said an unemployed militant. Every reporter will be issued with an election package as they step out of the plane and are greeted by the tropical heat of Africa. Non-government organisations are understood to have teams on standby, ready to supply quotes about rampant corruption, grinding poverty, and soaring unemployment. Photograph: Riccardo Gangale/AP

    A Masaai woman casts her vote in the Kenyan general election in Ilbissil.

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    Demand for clichés is expected to reach a peak as foreign correspondents fly in to cover the election. “We anticipate a run on ‘hotly contested’ and ‘neck and neck’” said an unemployed militant.

    Every reporter will be issued with an election package as they step out of the plane and are greeted by the tropical heat of Africa.

    Non-government organisations are understood to have teams on standby, ready to supply quotes about rampant corruption, grinding poverty, and soaring unemployment.

    Photograph: Riccardo Gangale/AP

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    Half the size of a football pitch, Migingo Island on Lake Victoria is claimed by both Kenya and Uganda. The population of 131 is made up of mostly fishermen and traders. Jesco Denzel

    Half the size of a football pitch, Migingo Island on Lake Victoria is claimed by both Kenya and Uganda. The population of 131 is made up of mostly fishermen and traders.

    Jesco Denzel

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    Photograph: Monica Mark for the Guardian How Kenyans are using graffiti to take on politics: It’s after 2am and Boniface Mwangi and his crew are ready for action. A portable generator roars into life, a projector balanced on a stack of cardboard boxes clicks on, and a sketch of bald-headed, big-beaked vultures in suits appears on the blank wall of a public toilet on Koinange Street in central Nairobi. “Let’s start this thing,” says Mwangi.

    Photograph: Monica Mark for the Guardian

    How Kenyans are using graffiti to take on politics:

    It’s after 2am and Boniface Mwangi and his crew are ready for action. A portable generator roars into life, a projector balanced on a stack of cardboard boxes clicks on, and a sketch of bald-headed, big-beaked vultures in suits appears on the blank wall of a public toilet on Koinange Street in central Nairobi.

    “Let’s start this thing,” says Mwangi.

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