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Kenya has one president. In a political showdown, it's about to swear in another

Kenya's main opposition leader is scheduled to be sworn in as president. Just one problem: The country already has a president.

Raila Odinga, leader of the National Super Alliance, a coalition of center-left opposition parties, is preparing for an inauguration Tuesday to install him as a "people's president" and create an alternative government - in protest of the recent re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

"It's a combination of a symbolic gesture which calls into question the legitimacy of the de facto government, while at the same

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