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Archive for February, 2008

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 […]

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Feb 28, 2008 | Categories: Africa, Kenya, Latest News, The Kenyan Crisis | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

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 […]

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Feb 26, 2008 | Categories: Africa, Kenya, Latest News, The Kenyan Crisis | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

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 […]

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Feb 26, 2008 | Categories: Africa, Kenya, The Kenyan Crisis, Voices of Kenya | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments »

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 […]

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Feb 23, 2008 | Categories: Africa, Kenya, Latest News, The Kenyan Crisis | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

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 […]

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Feb 21, 2008 | Categories: Africa, Kenya, Latest News, The Kenyan Crisis | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

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 […]

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Feb 10, 2008 | Categories: Africa, Kenya, Latest News, The Kenyan Crisis | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments »

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 […]

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Feb 02, 2008 | Categories: #1 Reads, Africa, Kenya, Latest News, The Kenyan Crisis, Voices of Kenya | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

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 […]

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Feb 01, 2008 | Categories: Africa, Kenya, Latest News, The Kenyan Crisis | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments »