They said they felt cheated by the election, awarded in dubious circumstances to President Mwai Kibaki over opposition leader, Raila Odinga.
If a contrast were needed, consider Ivory Coast, where President Laurent Gbagbo, backed by his military, has utterly refused to leave office despite an election awarded to his opponents.
In the latest in a string of deadly attacks that marred the lead-up to the election, award-winning German photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed and veteran Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon was injured when a police commander opened fire on their car in the eastern town of Khost on Friday.
I said Trump was our first modern patrimonialist, because America did have, in an earlier era, a version of the philosophy – the spoils system, in which the successful party in an election awarded jobs, patronage, public contracts, and public lands to members of their winning political coalition.
"In the case of Liberia, I think it's just really inappropriate, a week before the election, to award this," Mr. Keating said.
Sir David Frost, due to step down from his Breakfast With Frost after the general election, was awarded the Academy Fellowship.
That is a possible, if unlikely, scenario, because Britain's election system awards seats to the candidates with the most votes in each district, rather than doling them out on a proportional basis.
INTRADE, a Dublin-based "prediction market" where punters could bet on the probability of events such as elections or awards, had a strong claim to be the favourite website of economists.
"While I'd rather win an election than an award, it is an honor to be recognized by our peers in the political consulting and public affairs profession".
They're proposing a ballot initiative for next June's statewide primary election that would award electoral votes based on the winner of each congressional district.
Peite Lien, a political scientist at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, who will use her grant to study the political attitudes of Asian Americans in a half-dozen U.S. cities during this year's presidential election, welcomes the award.
