Solidarity across the border. Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has revealed details of a phone call with Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine just hours before polls opened. "I told him to stand firm," Babu said. "The youth of East Africa are watching."

The two youthful leaders share a similar brand of populist politics and have often supported each other against established regimes. Babu’s public support for Wine is a diplomatic headache for the Kenyan government, which maintains close ties with Museveni, but it endears him to the radical youth base.