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KENYA: kenya in crisis - update: lanun nak hijack kapal kat maritim kenya!!
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Konflik pilihan raya
Keputusan pilihan raya mencetuskan huru-hara di seluruh Kenya,diikuti dengan pembunuhan antara puak terutamanya di antara puak Kikuyudan Luo.
PENDUDUK Kenya berbaris untuk mendapatkan
sumbangan makanan di kem pelarian di Nairobi.
WAKIL tertinggi Amerika Syarikat mengetuai tekanan antarabangsa keatas Kenya untuk mengakhiri kekacauan yang telah meragut ratusan nyawa,berikutan ketegangan yang memuncak akibat perhimpunan haram anjuranpihak pembangkang.
Kerajaan Kenya dan pihak polis berulang kali memberikan amaranbahawa apa juga demonstrasi politik diharamkan berikutan protes pilihanraya yang berlangsung sejak Selasa lalu.
Ia adalah cubaan terbaru pihak pembangkang mengadakan perhimpunanharam untuk menyokong pemimpin mereka, Raila Odinga yang mendakwapilihan raya pada 27 Disember lalu dipenuhi penipuan.
揚ihak polis memiliki maklumat perisikan yang konkrit dan spesifikbahawa wujud kumpulan yang berniat jahat untuk menggagalkan perjumpaanini bagi tujuan jenayah,?jelas jurucakap polis, Eric Kiraithe kepadapara wartawan.
Lebih 370 orang meninggal dunia dalam siri keganasan pasca pilihanraya. Kumpulan-kumpulan bantuan juga telah mengeluarkan amarankemungkinan berlakunya krisis kemanusiaan dan 250,000 orang kehilangantempat tinggal.
ORANG ramai merampas bekalan makanan yang
sepatutnya diagihkan kepada penduduk di Korogucho.
Timbalan Setiausaha Amerika bagi Perhubungan Afrika, Jendayi Frazermengadakan perbincangan di sebuah kem bersama Presiden Kenya, MwaiKibaki dan ketua pembangkang, Raila Odinga untuk melegakan ketegangan.
Pemegang anugerah Nobel Keamanan Afrika Selatan, Desmond Tutu turutmengambil bahagian dalam perbincangan tersebut. Sementara PresidenGhana, John Kufuor yang kini mengetuai Kesatuan Afrika, juga dijangkaberada di Kenya untuk menyertai perbincangan tersebut dengan pihakpembangkang.
Odinga yang mendakwa Kibaki menipu dalam pilihan raya telahmenghantar surat peletakan jawatan dan menolak tawaran untuk menubuhkanKabinet campuran daripada Kibaki.
揔ami tidak berminat dengan corak penyelesaian Kibaki terhadapmasalah ini. Kibaki tidak mempunyai apa-apa untuk ditawarkan kerana diatidak memenangi pilihan raya ini,?kata ketua pembangkang itu.
Kem Odinga merancang sesi demonstrasi untuk menyatakan tentangpenipuan pengundian, hampir seminggu selepas pihak polis menghalangsatu perhimpunan kecil.
揂pa yang pihak pembangkang mahu capai melalui demonstrasi sebegini,sedangkan mereka tidak boleh memperoleh apa yang diingini melaluiperbincangan damai??soal jurucakap kerajaan, Mutua dalam satu sidangmedia.
揔erajaan telah mengharamkan segala perhimpunan haram oleh mana-manaparti politik,?katanya yang mengumumkan amaran yang pernah dikeluarkansebelum ini akan diperketatkan.
Di seluruh Kenya, rakyatnya menyatakan kebimbangan bahawademonstrasi-demonstrasi ini hanya akan menimbulkan lebih banyakkeganasan.
Kawasan setinggan Mathare di Nairobi menjadi lokasi keteganganpaling teruk. Beberapa buah kedai kembali dibuka pada minggu lalu,tetapi kebimbangan masih berleluasa.
揔ami terpaksa mula bekerja, tetapi orang ramai di situ masih berasatakut. Esok mungkin berlaku huru-hara, tiada apa yang akan kembaliseperti normal,?kata Peter, 23, salah seorang penduduk setinggan yangmenganggur.
Ahli puak Kikuyu yang menyokong Kibaki berkumpul dalam beberapakumpulan kecil kerana bimbang berlakunya serangan terbaru daripadapenyokong pembangkang, terutamanya puak asal Odinga iaitu Luo.
揚uak Luo mendakwa Odinga memenangi pilihan raya itu. Malah, puakKikuyu pun mengetahuinya. Tetapi itu bukanlah alasan untuk memulakanperang. Kami mahukan keamanan, namun kami juga mempunyai senjata danbukannya penakut,?kata seorang anak muda, Steve, 29.
EORANG ibu meratapi kematian anak lelakinya yang mati
dalam huru-hara di Kenya.
Para pemerhati pilihan raya menyatakan bahawa proses pengiraan undidilakukan secara tidak teratur, menyebabkan kedua-dua pihak menuduhpihak lain menipu.
Lembaga pilihan raya mengumumkan Kibaki sebagai pemenang. Keputusanitu mencetuskan huru-hara di seluruh negara, diikuti dengan pembunuhanantara puak terutamanya di antara puak Kikuyu dan Luo.
Berdasarkan pengiraan yang dibuat oleh AFP menerusi data darihospital-hospital, polis dan kawasan perkuburan, sekurang-kurangnya 371orang terbunuh dalam kekacauan sejak hari pilihan raya.
Pihak polis menyatakan tujuh orang terbunuh di wilayah Transoia,barat Kenya apabila mereka cuba menyerang balai polis yang menempatkanpelarian.
Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (PBB) pula menganggarkan kekacauanitu menyebabkan 250,000 rakyat Kenya kehilangan tempat tinggal termasuk100,000 orang yang memerlukan bantuan serta merta di kawasan baratrantau Rift Valley, lokasi yang memperlihatkan pertumpahan darah palingserius.
Pasukan-pasukan bantuan memberi amaran akan berlakunya krisiskesihatan di kem-kem yang dibina di sekolah-sekolah, hospital dangereja di kawasan terpinggir serta berbahaya.
Program Makanan Dunia memberitahu, konvoi makanan pertama dariMombasa telah membawa 670 tan makanan menuju Nairobi dan Eldoret.
Pada masa yang sama, polis menawarkan pasukan keselamatan bagimengawal lori-lori tangki yang membawa minyak ke negara jiran dalamusaha menamatkan masalah kekurangan bekalan di Uganda, Burundi, Rwandadan wilayah timur Republik Demokratik Congo.
Akhbar The Nation mengingatkan rakyat Kenya bahawa betapa mudahnyamereka meruntuhkan negara yang selama ini dilihat sebagai simbolharapan kestabilan di rantau yang sering dibelenggu dengan konflik.
揑a mungkin sesuatu yang sukar buat rakyat Kenya. Kebanyakan merekakini terbahagi kepada parti dan puak. Tetapi rakyat mesti cuba bersatukerana jika tidak, negara akan musnah.?- AFP
penuh dengan penipuan; undi tipu undi hantu pembangkang tak leh berdemo.. kena sembur gas sampai bunuh membunuh mcm besa dengar aje kat m'sia, kan..
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Oleh itu mengundilah dengan bijak |
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Police battle Kenyan protesters for second day
By C. Bryson Hull and Nick Tattersall
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police clashed with opposition protesters on Thursday in a second day of demonstrations against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election in which police have already killed three.
In opposition strongholds in the capital Nairobi and the western town of Kisumu, police fired tear gas and live bullets and struck at least two people -- including a boy of five -- in a repeat of earlier clashes with protesters from the slums.
A protester holds a machete and an unexploded tear-gas canister during a demonstration in the western town of Kisumu, January 17, 2008. Kenyan police clashed with opposition protesters on Thursday in a second day of demonstrations against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election in which police have already killed three. (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)
The violence occurred on the second of three days of banned protest rallies called by opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) coalition, which says the government stole the election.
Kenya's rapid plunge into crisis has tarnished its democratic credentials, horrified world powers, scared off tourists and hurt one of Africa's most promising economies.
In three weeks since the Dec. 27 vote, violence pitting police against protesters and opposition gangs against tribes seen as pro-Kibaki have killed about 620 people.
A quarter of a million people, mostly from Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, have been turned into refugees in the turmoil surrounding a vote foreign observers say fell short of democratic standards.
With few options left as Kibaki has entrenched his administration and negotiations brokered by African leaders have so far yielded nothing, ODM has taken its fight to the streets.
"We are doing civilian disobedience without looting," protester Joseph Orlale, 24, said in the western opposition stronghold of Kisumu. "We will continue demonstrating until the government gives up and returns power to the people."
'DISRUPT PEOPLE'S LIVES'
The government accuses Odinga's side of rigging votes, orchestrating ethnic killings and ignoring court challenges in favour of violence. The opposition says the courts are biased and accuses the police of opening fire on peaceful protesters.
"They are just waking up at 10 o'clock, eating eggs and sausages, giving interviews and planning how to disrupt people's lives, " government spokesman Alfred Mutua told reporters.
In Nairobi's Mathare slum, clouds of tear gas rose above the tin-roofed shacks as police firing weapons chased protesters through the muddy maze of homes. Protesters earlier tried to block the road before police chased them off.
"Some of them have guns and were shooting at us," an officer who declined to give his name said in Mathare, a slum were tribal gangs have clashed previously.
Witnesses said a five-year-old boy was shot in the leg.
Also in Nairobi, a human rights activist chained himself to a gate outside police headquarters, but was quickly arrested.
In Kisumu, riot police fired in the air and struck at least one man as they battled youths who set up blazing roadblocks and gathered to protest.
"The police were shooting indiscriminately, targeting anyone on sight. My father was shot in the stomach," witness Alphonse Otieno said by phone from Kisumu's Kondele slum.
On Wednesday, police shot dead three people in Kisumu, saying they were attacked first. ODM spokesman Salim Lone called one killing captured on local TV a "cold-blooded execution".
Also on Wednesday, TV footage showed police tear-gassing opposition leaders at two hotels, and then chasing them down Nairobi's main Kenyatta Avenue. Odinga was near but stayed in his four-wheel drive truck, the footage showed.
The United States and former colonial power Britain have called on Kibaki's government to let peaceful protests go ahead, and pressed the ODM to stop violence by its supporters.
They and 11 other nations have threatened to cut aid if the government's commitment to "good governance, democracy, the rule of law and human rights weakens".
Government spokesman Mutua said the threat was idle because Kenya was not dependent on aid like many of its African neighbours. Kenya gets less than 5 percent of its budget in aid.
"You are not here to threaten us," Mutua said.
"We have gotten ourselves free from the yoke of neo-colonialism and dependency." |
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Renung2kan..
pilihan anda membawa kemungkinan pada masa depan..
be end or pis |
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Kenya dihantui protes berdarah
NAIROBI 17 Jan. |
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Pembangkang Kenya terus beri tekanan
19/01/2008 2:30pm
NAIROBI 19 Jan. - Pertempuran antara etnik-etnik bertelagah yang bersenjatakan parang dan panah menjadikan hari ketiga bantahan politik di Kenya semalam paling berdarah.
Pada masa yang sama kerajaan berharap ia menjadi hari terakhir protes pembangkang berhubung pilihan raya Presiden yang menjadi pertikaian.
Selepas sekurang-kurangnya 20 orang mati antara Rabu dan Jumaat, pembangkang mengumumkan strategi baru iaitu melancarkan boikot ekonomi dan mogok bagi meneruskan tekanan terhadap kerajaan Presiden Mwai Kibaki.
Duta Amerika Syarikat (AS) menyatakan 搕erdapat banyak faktor dan rasa tidak puas hati |
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Kenya terus jadi saksi keganasan terbaru
NAIROBI 21 Jan. |
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Annan arrives in Kenya, urges rivals to talk
By Nick Tattersall
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Kenya on Tuesday to try to end a political crisis that has killed at least 650 people, and called on the feuding parties to start talks and respect the rule of law.
The disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki in a Dec. 27 vote unleashed weeks of ethnic and political violence that have severely damaged one of Africa's most promising economies and left around 250,000 people homeless.
An anti-riot policeman walks through tear gas during a march in support of Kenya's president Mwai Kibaki in Nairobi January 22, 2008. (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)
Despite pressure from Western powers -- and to the disgust of millions of ordinary Kenyans -- Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have still not met to discuss a way out of the crisis.
Odinga says Kibaki stole his victory and has used the power of the state to consolidate his control of the government.
Shortly after his arrival in Nairobi, Annan told reporters the two sides must begin talks in good faith and respect the rule of law.
"We expect all parties to enter into dialogue in good faith ... Our message to the parties is this: there can be no solution, no peace and stability ... without respect for the rule of law," Annan said.
Annan's mediation mission follows a similar attempt earlier this month by Ghanaian President John Kufuor, the head of the African Union, who was unable to get Kibaki and Odinga to meet.
He faces an uphill task resolving a bitter dispute between two men who deeply distrust each other and are entrenched in apparently irreconcilable positions.
"Short of getting them both in a choke-hold and banging their heads together, Mr Annan has very little leverage on either President Kibaki and Mr Odinga or their respective entourages of myopic warmongers and sycophants," columnist Macharia Gaitho wrote in the Daily Nation newspaper.
Diplomats hope Annan, a Nobel Peace laureate whose negotiating experience ranges from Israel to Darfur, can bring Kibaki and Odinga to the same table, and possibly persuade them to join some sort of power-sharing arrangement.
In the latest violence, a mob killed a member of Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe by setting him on fire inside his car in the volatile Rift Valley, police said on Tuesday.
Police, who have banned all demonstrations, fired teargas to disperse supporters of Kibaki in central Nairobi hours before Annan's arrival.
Riot police scattered about 100 government supporters who had been chanting "Lead on, Kibaki!", sending business people scurrying for cover.
TEARGAS AND MACHETES
Weeks of bloodletting in a nation long seen as one of east Africa's most stable has undermined its democratic credentials and laid bare deep tribal divisions underpinning politics.
In a new sign of economic damage, Kenya's shilling neared a 14-month low versus the dollar and Kenya Airways said it has seen an 18 percent drop in passengers from Europe since the crisis began.
Scenes of police firing teargas and live ammunition in Nairobi slums, or of bloodied victims of machete and spear attacks in the picturesque Rift Valley, have sullied Kenya's image as a tourist haven and regional trade and aid hub.
An aid agency complained on Tuesday that the government was closing a Nairobi refugee camp, where victims of violence in the vast Kibera slum had fled.
"We can't tell people whose houses have burnt down in Kibera to go back to their homes. These people have rights," said Gerald Rukunga of the health charity AMREF.
Opposition Orange Democratic Movement chairman Anyang' Nyong'o said the party was filing a complaint with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, charging Kibaki, his cabinet and police commanders over killings of protesters.
"The charges are crimes against humanity," he said.
The government has taken out full-page adverts in newspapers accusing Western powers, the international media and rights groups of fanning unrest by questioning the election result.
U.S. Ambassador Michael Ranneberger dismissed the adverts as "scurrilous propaganda".
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni also flew into Nairobi on Tuesday to try to mediate. |
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Krisis Kenya: Kes rogol, cabul meningkat
NEW YORK 23 Jan. |
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Kenya opposition calls off protests at Annan's request
Kenya's opposition on Wednesday called off mass rallies scheduled for the next day to protest disputed presidential polls, at the request of former UN chief Kofi Annan, in Kenya to mediate the crisis.
Police had banned the rallies due to follow three days of opposition protests last week which sparked clashes that killed some 80 people, bringing the overall death toll since the December 27 election to more than 780.
Annan was in Nairobi in the latest attempt to mediate the turmoil sparked by the disputed reelection of President Mwai Kibaki last month.
"At the request of Mr. Annan, we called off the mass action scheduled for tommorrow (Thursday), but that does not mean that we cannot call a new round of mass actions," said Orange Democratic Movement spokesman Salim Lone.
The former UN chief met earlier with ODM leader Raila Odinga, who claims he was robbed of the presidency.
"It was a two-hour meeting that was useful and very constructive. It is going to be very tough negotiations, but we are determined to do everything to make it (reaching an agreement) happen since the future of this country is at stake," Lone said.
A separate meeting between Annan and Kibaki was delayed until Thursday, government spokesman Alfred Mutua said.
"We hope that Kofi Annan and team manages to see Mr Kibaki tomorrow," said top ODM official Willam Ruto.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni however did meet Wednesday with Kibaki. He was among the first leaders to recognise Kibaki's legitimacy after the contested poll.
Several international attempts to bring the two sides into face-to-face talks have so far failed, as clashes continue.
Riot police earlier fired bullets in the air and tear gas at an opposition funeral procession, sparking running battles and resulting in the razing of a telecommunications exchange centre.
Odinga, who fled the scene after the latest disturbance in the Kenyan capital, said the government went too far by assalting mourners.
This "government first committed the unforgivable crime of stealing the vote, it then kills those who protest, and finally, when people come to mourn the departed, it assaults them as well," Odinga said in a statement.
"This latest attack on a peaceful gathering shows that this government is running amok ... To assault peacefully gathered mourners is a terrible crime, made much worse when the peoples' leaders, including the winner of the presidential election, are the targets," the statement added.
Six people were killed late Tuesday in western Kenya, and another man in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, police told AFP. The two areas have seen the worst violence since the December elections.
Before his first talks with Kenya's feuding factions, Annan said he had no miracle answer to the unrest.
Meanwhile, Odinga said in an interview with German public television ARD broadcast Wednesday that he was ready to share power with Kibaki.
"We are prepared to share power with him. He would remain president and we would take the prime minister's job," Odinga said, but he added that cooperation "depends on certain conditions."
The constitution of Kenya would need to be changed to create the post of prime minister, and Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement in Nairobi said the comments had been taken out of context.
"What they are saying is false ... This was a long interview and in that, they decided to pick out what thay wanted that was totally out of context," ODM press secretary Anthony Gachoka told AFP.
About 260,000 people have fled their homes because of the post-poll violence which has broken Kenya's image as a haven of stability in the region and dealt a huge blow to east Africa's biggest economy.
The AU's Peace and Security Council on Tuesday condemned "gross violations of human rights" in Kenya and called for an investigation, which was also supported by the United Nations.
"The killings have to be investigated expeditiously and impartially, and anyone found responsible for human rights abuses must be brought to justice," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said in a statement.
The World Bank and African Development Bank said they would review funding to Kenya if leaders fail to halt the crisis.
Hundreds of villagers on Wednesday fled their homes in Molo, western Kenya.
Witnesses said most of those leaving were from Kibaki's Kikuyu ethnic group. |
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Korban rusuhan di Kenya cecah 25 orang
NAKURU (Kenya): Korban rusuhan ganas di Kenya mencecah 25 orang semalam dengan penemuan 16 mayat di Nakuru yang menjadi lokasi terburuk berikutan rasa tidak puas hati berhubung keputusan pemilihan Presiden, bulan lalu.
Lebih memburukkan keadaan, penduduk Kenya yang terpaksa meninggalkan rumah masing-masing akibat pertempuran jalanan, berikrar membalas dendam.
Rusuhan jalanan itu menyebabkan mayat mangsa dengan kesan tetakan dan tusukan panah, bergelimpangan di jalan raya.
Beratus-ratus rumah di Nakuru, ibu kota wilayah Rift Valley, yang menyaksikan pertempuran ganas antara pengikut Presiden Mwai Kibaki dari puak Kikuyu dan kumpulan lain yang menuduh Presiden menyelewengkan keputusan pilihan raya itu.
Semalam, polis membawa 16 mayat ke rumah mayat Nakuru dan polis berkata angka kematian keganasan itu kini mencecah 25 orang.
Beratus-ratus yang lain pula berlindung di beberapa tempat termasuk gereja selepas rumah mereka musnah dibakar.
揔ami mahu membalas dendam dan sedang mencari senjata, |
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Sunday January 27, 2008
Annan meets Odinga, Kenya clashes kill
By Tim Cocks and Antony Gitonga
NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Ethnic clashes killed at least 10 people in Kenya's Rift Valley on Sunday as former U.N. chief Kofi Annan met opposition leader Raila Odinga to try to resolve a month-long crisis that has claimed 750 lives.
A Reuters reporter in Naivasha counted ten bodies, six burnt and four hacked to death as members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe fought running battles with Luos and Kalenjins who back his rival Raila Odinga.
 | Former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan gestures as he meets opposition leader Raila Odinga in Nairobi, January 27, 2008. Ethnic clashes killed at least 10 people in Kenya's Rift Valley on Sunday as Annan met Odinga to try to resolve a month-long crisis that has claimed 750 lives. (REUTERS/Antony Njuguna)
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Two truckloads of soldiers were deployed as sporadic gunfire rang out and smoke poured from torched homes and vehicles. Barricades blocked Kenya's main western highway outside the town and police turned back cars heading towards the area.
"The tribes in Kenya are just not getting along. It is as if every tribe is against us, and no one is protecting us," said Dominic Karanja, a Kikuyu watching troops dismantle roadblocks that he had helped build. "These people are attacking us, so now we want those Luos and Kalenjins to go back."
Several shops including a nearby Internet cafe were looted and smashed and burnt computers littered the street outside.
The violence threatened to undermine mediation by Annan, who called on both feuding parties on Sunday to name four officials for further talks after he held discussions with Odinga.
The former U.N. chief visited parts of the Rift Valley on Saturday that have been hit by clashes and warned that turmoil triggered by Kibaki's disputed re-election had now evolved into something worse with "gross and systematic" rights abuses.
"Let us not kid ourselves and think that this is an electoral problem. It's much broader and much deeper," he said.
"We have to tackle the fundamental issues that underlie what we are witnessing today. If we do not do that, three, five years from now we may be back at this."
"SIMMERING HATE"
The sudden slide of Naivasha and another previously quiet tourist town, Nakuru, into pitched tribal battles has deepened growing anxiety since Dec. 27 polls cast the country into chaos.
Hundreds have died in the turmoil and quarter of a million more have been forced from their homes. The unrest has shattered the east African nation's image of stability and damaged one of the continent's most promising economies.
Many Kenyans say leaders on both sides of the political divide show few signs of addressing deep seated tribal rivalries over land, business and power -- many of them born more than 45 years ago under British colonial rule.
"The elections were just a veneer for hate that has simmered for years," wrote columnist Gitau Warigi in the Sunday Nation.
A survey of more than 2,000 respondents in the same newspaper showed only a narrow majority, 51.6 percent, of Kenyans believed Annan would be able to resolve the crisis.
Nakuru and Naivasha had previously been spared the riots and ethnic attacks that have convulsed parts of Kenya since the election, which Odinga accuses Kibaki of rigging.
On Thursday, Annan brokered the first talks between the two men since the troubles began, raising hopes. But the discussions prompted fresh verbal attacks by both camps, and that night Nakuru, the Rift's provincial capital, descended into chaos.
At least 27 people were killed in Nakuru as rival tribal gangs clashed with machetes, spears and bows and arrows. Local media said the three-day death toll there could top 50.
The unrest has inflamed long-held rivalries between Kikuyus and the Kalenjins, Luos and Luhyas who supported Odinga.
In the ethnically-mixed Rift Valley, old scores are being settled and angry youths on both sides talk of revenge. |
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Kenya hampir pada anarki
NAIROBI 29 Jan. |
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Lagi pembangkang ditembak di Kenya
WASHINGTON 31 Jan. |
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Annan due to resume Kenya crisis talks as UN chief arrives
Former UN chief Kofi Annan was Friday due to resume talks aimed atending Kenya's political crisis a day after an opposition lawmaker wasshot dead by a policeman, setting off further clashes in the volatilewestern region.
Thetalks were the first between the camps of President Mwai Kibaki andopposition leader Raila Odinga since December polls which the latterclaims he won. Both camps have vowed to carry on with the talks untilthe crisis was resolved.
AlsoFriday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who met Kibaki at an AfricanUnion summit in Addis Ababa the previous day, is expected in thecountry to hold talks with Odinga.
Kenyannewspapers reported that influential South African business tycoonCyril Ramaphosa, who chairs the African National Congress's NegotiatingCommission, will join the efforts to end the crisis.
Police saidDavid Kimutai Too, 40, from Odinga's opposition Orange DemocraticMovement was killed in the western town of Eldoret early Thursday,making him the second MP to die in three days.
They described the incident as a crime of passion unrelated to the recent political violence.
Butviolent demonstrations soon followed in the western town -- killing atleast two -- and in nearby Kericho and Kisumu, with police firing teargas on protesters who were blocking roads and lighting fires.
"Twopeople were killed in Eldoret in the demonstrations but police aretrying to establish what happened," a police commander told AFP, afterearlier reporting six injured in battles with protesters.
Demonstrators razed part of Nyagacho slums in the outskirts of Kericho, which is near the hometown of the slain lawmaker.
Ban,who has mounted pressure on the Kenyan foes to end the crisis, onThursday warned that the violence in Kenya could spiral out of controlunless quick action was taken.
"These clashes are growing alongethnic lines. If political leaders fail to act responsibly, thesituation could escalate beyond control," Ban said, adding that hewould travel to Kenya on Friday to meet Odinga.
African Unioncommission chairman Alpha Oumar Konare called on the main protagoniststo work together towards a peaceful solution.
"If you burn Kenya, what will be left for you to govern?" he said.
Thekilling of Too, a former school teacher, followed the slaying oflawmaker Melitus Mugabe Were in Nairobi on Tuesday, which sparkedviolent unrest in flashpoint western regions and slums in the capital.
Almost 1,000 have already died and up to 300,000 have been displaced since Kibaki's re-election.
Odinga said the killings were "part of a plot" to reduce his Orange Democratic Movement's (ODM) majority in parliament.
TheODM secured 99 seats in the legislative elections that coincided withthe presidential poll, making it the largest single party but short ofan overall majority. Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) won 43seats.
A police commander said Too and his girlfriend were shot by a traffic policeman.
"He was with a girl who is a police officer. He was shot by another policeman believed to be her boyfriend," the commander said.
Kenyan police received shoot-to-kill orders Wednesday in a bid to stem weeks of unrest.
Odinga called for the orders to be cancelled immediately, calling them "a sign of a government that has run amok."
Odingahas refused to recognise the legitimacy of Kibaki's presidency and hisparty has pressed for an electoral re-run, but the government hasinstead insisted on dialogue.
Members of Kibaki's Kikuyu tribesuffered heavily in the first wave of violence at the hands of Odinga'sLuo tribe and other ethnic groups, but have since carried out numerousrevenge attacks.
Police said security patrols would continue across the country, but urged politicians to desist from sowing animosity.
"Weare doing everything to ensure the country is peaceful. We are urgingpoliticians to read the mood of the electorate and join us in preachingpeace," said police spokesman Eric Kiraithe.
Governmentspokesman Alfred Mutua warned politicians against inciting violence bytaking advantage of the fact that Kibaki was a "humble and patient"president.
Local and international investigators were carrying out probes in the country, Mutua added.
TheUnited States' top Africa envoy Jendayi Frazer said Wednesday that theviolence in Kenya had involved acts of "ethnic cleansing" and the UNSecurity Council called for both sides to end the bloodshed.
TheState Department has warned Americans against travel to Kisumu andother western Kenyan cities while temporarily moving a number of USofficials from Kisumu to the capital Nairobi.
"US citizensshould avoid all travel to the cities of Kisumu, Nakuru and Naivasha,and defer all non-essential travel to the remaining portions of Nyanza,Western, and Rift Valley provinces," it said in a statement. |
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Saturday February 2, 2008
Kenyan rivals strike deal to try and stop violence
By Duncan Miriri
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's government and opposition struck an agreement on Friday to take immediate steps to try and end tribal bloodshed in a five-week-old political standoff in which about 850 people have been killed.
The agreement was brokered by former U.N. head Kofi Annan, leading an African mediation mission to resolve the standoff that began when a Dec. 27 poll returned President Mwai Kibaki to power. Opposition leader Raila Odinga says the vote was rigged.
Annan said the two sides would discuss how to stop the violence, delivery of humanitarian aid and how to end the political impasse before tackling a longer term solution in Kenya, East Africa's biggest economy and a popular tourist spot.
"The first (agenda item) is to take immediate action to stop the violence," Annan told a news conference, adding that both sides would get round the negotiating table from Monday.
"But more importantly, the parties agreed that the first three items (on the agenda) could be handled and resolved within 7 to 15 days," said Annan.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into Nairobi on Friday from an African Union summit in Addis Ababa to add his heavyweight diplomatic clout to his predecessor's efforts.
"The killing must stop," said Ban, echoing the alarm expressed by world leaders at seeing Kenya, long viewed as a peacemaker on a volatile continent, plunge into turmoil. Kenya is a key ally of the West in its efforts to counter al Qaeda.
"You have lost already too much in terms of national image, economic interest," said Ban.
Senior opposition official Musalia Mudavadi said the two sides agreed to urge supporters to end the violence.
"We are calling on the public to disband any illegal militia," he said.
Justice Minister Martha Karua agreed and said steps would be taken to protect life and property.
Violence was reported in flashpoints in western Kenya on Friday.
"I saw around 20 torched houses ... and two policemen with arrow wounds. At least 10 people have died from both sides," said a local journalist, who declined to be named.
More than 300,000 Kenyans are living as refugees because the violence has forced them to flee their homes.
GENOCIDE ACCUSATIONS
Both sides have traded accusations of genocide in the fighting, which has often pitted Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe -- long-dominant in political and business life in East Africa's biggest economy -- and Odinga's Luo tribe against each other.
The unrest has taken the lid off decades-old divisions between tribal groupings over land, wealth and power, dating from British colonial rule and stoked by Kenyan politicians during 44 years of independence.
Kibaki says he is Kenya's elected leader but international observers said the count was so chaotic it was impossible to tell who won.
Earlier on Friday before the Annan-brokered agreement, Kibaki took an uncompromising line over the turmoil in his country and diplomats said Africa was divided over the standoff.
Speakers on the first day of the AU summit on Thursday called for urgent action to stop the violence, stepping up pressure on Kibaki and Odinga to find a negotiated solution.
But in two speeches on Friday, to the summit and a separate meeting of the East African regional grouping IGAD, Kibaki repeatedly attacked the opposition and stuck to positions already rejected by Odinga.
He said he had been elected by a majority of Kenyans, firmly put the blame for deaths on Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and said the dispute must be settled by Kenya's courts.
Odinga rejects a solution through the courts on grounds that they are stacked with Kibaki allies and would take years to issue a ruling.
The 53 member nations of the AU seemed divided over Kenya.
"There are divisions between one group who see themselves in Kibaki's situation and another that has told him in no uncertain terms that this is not acceptable," said one Western diplomat, adding that South Africa was in the latter group.
South Africa says Kenya's crisis will be a disaster for the continent if not resolved quickly.
The United States and European countries have pledged their support for Annan's mediation efforts. Donors have said aid programmes to Kenya are under review. |
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Tuesday February 5, 2008
Kenya crisis death toll hits 1,000 - Red Cross
NAIROBI (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people have died and 304,000people been displaced in Kenya's post-election crisis, the local RedCross said on Tuesday.
"As of yesterday, we have over 1,000 people (dead) including thelatest killings in Kisii, Migori and other places over the weekend,"Kenya Red Cross spokesman Tony Mwangi said.
 | Childrendisplaced during post-election violence stand in line to receive foodat their temporary shelter outside Tigoni police station, near Nairobi,February 4, 2008. More than 1,000 people have died and 304,000 peoplebeen displaced in Kenya's post-election crisis, the local Red Crosssaid on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)
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The figure of 304,000 refugees did not include displacements over recent days and so would probably rise, he said.
Most of the deaths, in one of Kenya's darkest moment sinceindependence from Britain 44 years ago, have come from cycles of ethnickillings and police clashes with protesters.
The internal humanitarian crisis is a shock to Kenyans, more used toreceiving refugees from neighbouring hot-spots like Somalia, Sudan andEthiopia.
sedih tul bila aku kenangkan org2 kat kenya kena bunuh nun sana... sedey ..  |
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Rundingan di Kenya temui jalan buntu
NAIROBI 13 Feb. |
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