NAIROBI - TEARGAS FIRED AT PROTESTERS IN STAND-OFF WITH ANTI RIOT COPS

RUNNING BATTLE Police officers react during a demonstration of Kenya's National Super Alliance coalition of opposition parties against the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Nairobi

Kenyan police used teargas and batons on Tuesday to disperse protesters calling for election officials to be sacked before the rerun of a contested presidential vote.

Volleys of teargas were fired near the election commission headquarters in Nairobi. When they regrouped, officers fired more teargas and beat some of them with batons.

Raila Odinga, who lost his presidential bid on August 8, will get another chance, after the Supreme Court annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election, citing irregularities, and ordered a fresh vote to happen within 60 days.

Odinga has said he would not participate in the rerun scheduled for October 26 if election officials are not sacked and prosecuted.
The court did not find any individual responsible but said institutional failings had led to irregularities and illegalities in the transmission of election results.
Last week Kenya's chief prosecutor ordered investigations into 11 election board officials including its chief executive, Ezra Chiloba, as well as a lawyer and campaigner who worked for Odinga.

Some Kenyatta supporters also took to the streets in Nairobi but there were no clashes between the two sides.
In Mombasa a crowd gathered at a local election office, chanting: "No reforms no elections. Chiloba must go!"