Archive for the 'Kenya' Category
In today’s New York Times online, in an article buried beneath front page stories on the U.S. primaries, the Super Bowl, and the use of DNA to find lost World War II soldiers, you can read an AP piece about the continuing violence in Kenya.
Beyond the obvious lack of attention being paid to the crisis [...]
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10.05 am EST
Odinga’s opposition protest went on as planned in Nairobi earlier today, but without the level of bloodshed expected by journalists and observers. This, combined with a relative slowdown of deaths over the past 24 hours, may be good news for an overall decrease in the violence. A major police buildup [...]
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Kenya Unraveling
Every dispatch from Nairobi for the past two weeks has gone from bad to worse. A summary of the situation:
Dec 30, 2007 – Allegations of election fraud intensify around the country as President Mwai Kibaki is sworn in. Violence begins to erupt in small pockets, and has an ethnic component from the [...]
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