Power Sharing Deal Struck
Supporters of ODM cheering outside Harambe house were dispersed with tear gas this afternoon as President Mwai Kibaki and Hon. Raila Odinga signed a power sharing deal. The deal struck [...]
Negotiating Talks Break Down
Internally displaced persons at a camp just outside Nairobi’s slum of Mathare © Anne Holmes Chief mediator Kofi Annan announced today that he was suspending talks in order to deal [...]
Constitutional Crisis in Kenya
By Prof. Alberto Bencivenga (http://www.ogiek.org) Whoever reads Mr. S. N. Waruhiu’s book “From Autocracy to Democracy in Kenya” will be impressed by the amount of information and by the clarity [...]
Three Consecutive Nights of Raids in the Slums and More Reasons for Concern
Residents of Huruma gather around the body of a man shot dead by police in a late-night confrontation. © Anne Holmes The Nation published an article yesterday about the police [...]
Tensions Return
A mob in Mathare North attacks a man they accuse of being Mungiki. © Anne Holmes An overnight raid by police sparked a minor violent scene in Mathare North this [...]
What’s Next for Kenya?
Kisii Warriors in Chepilat on Tuesday. © Anne Holmes Standing by. That’s what I’m doing these days. The negotiations with Annan have helped to quiet things down a bit in [...]
They Are Young
By Onyango Oketch Move over grand pa They are young. They are angry. They are articulate and sophisticated. Nearly three quarters of them live in the sprawling slums of major [...]
Saved From a Lynching
My first day on the ground in Kenya, I went into Mathare with a group of photographers after hearing that there had been some problems. Two mobs were facing off [...]
