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A downed Chadian army helicopter lies in the desert sands just outside Abeche.
In Abeche now, the day was very calm. After checking with various people about the security situation, we took a drive up north to Biltin to have a chat with the governor and get his authorization to work as journalists in the area. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chad Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arrival in N’djamena, Chad June 17, 2008.
Things are calm in the capital after a series of rebel attacks in the east destabilized regular proceedings and raised the alert levels considerably. The rebels have apparently passed back over the border into Sudan now. Things seem to be relatively under control according to reports, but it’s still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darfur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next month I will be teaming up with fellow blogger David Axe over at WarIsBoring.com to head into Chad and cover the growing crisis on the border with Darfur. We will be there for one month.
Below is a map of Darfur and an area map of the region we will be travelling to inside Chad. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Burma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a good place to donate for Burmese victims of Cyclone Nargis.
Friends have been streaming in with various reports from Burma. Most of us have been denied visas. The situation is not good for the Burmese, and the junta&#8217;s comportment is, in my opinion, tantamount to genocide. The world&#8217;s dumbfounded silence and the media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Multimedia Slideshow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have been keeping up with my regular posts, thanks for stopping in. I will be taking a break from my reporting on Kenya and shall return in a month&#8217;s time. To view the multimedia slideshow I put together about the Kenyan crisis, click here.
Copyright &#169; 2008 The Vigilante Journalist. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/387</link>
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		<title>Mungiki Surprise Attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi, Nakuru, Naivasha, Nyieri and Eldoret were all affected by yesterday&#8217;s Mungiki demonstrations. A day after President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga named the cabinet, one would have expected Kenya to be celebrating. Instead, the capital city was completely paralyzed by road blocks set up by the Mungiki at key strategic points around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulling the Railway Line</title>
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A young man hacks at bolts holding the railway line together in Kibera slums. © Anne Holmes
Residents of Nairobi&#8217;s Kibera slum continued to pull up the railway line late into the evening and all morning until an agreement was struck with police. Community leaders came into the slum to discuss an end to the operation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/382</link>
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		<title>Tensions Rise in Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stalled negotiations over the naming of cabinet ministers by Prime Minister Designate Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki under the power-sharing deal struck in late February of this year, has given rise to renewed fears the violences may return. A failure to implement the accord could have dire consequences for the country. Pressure is coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Foreign Policy and the Kenya Peace Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before Kofi Annan enters the history books with merits on a job well done in Kenya, before you buy into the propaganda of American goodwill in this story, it would be worth it to examine the quick turn of events that led to the February 28 power sharing agreement. 
President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/373</link>
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		<title>ALERT: Demos Rock Downtown Nairobi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A large mob of several hundred people poured into the streets of downtown Nairobi today in support of jailed mungiki leader Maina Njenga. Clashes with police ensued. 
UPDATE: Several hundred Mungiki supporters descended upon Nairobi, calling into question security for the nation&#8217;s capital city. This incident came on the same day the BBC published its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALERT: US Bombs Kenya Somali Border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REPORT: One AC-130 bomber flew over the Somali-Kenyan border yesterday Sunday March 2, 2008, in an airstrike upon the Somali town of Dhoble, killing 6 and injuring 20 according to the latest reports. It is not yet clear where the plane came from. Reports of an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean are credible but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/369</link>
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		<title>Power Sharing Deal Struck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 creates a Prime Ministerial post for Mr. Odinga with the necessary constitutional amendments, and two Deputy Prime Minister positions, one for ODM and one for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/362</link>
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		<title>Negotiating Talks Break Down</title>
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Internally displaced persons at a camp just outside Nairobi&#8217;s slum of Mathare © Anne Holmes
Chief mediator Kofi Annan announced today that he was suspending talks in order to deal directly with the two leaders. He insisted the talks had not collapsed, but clearly an impasse has been reached. This morning, he announced that he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/357</link>
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		<title>Constitutional Crisis in Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 of the analysis done by this author. Any reader who did not grow up in an Anglo-Saxon juridical culture will be additionally impressed by the fact that, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/356</link>
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		<title>Three Consecutive Nights of Raids in the Slums and More Reasons for Concern</title>
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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 raids in Mathare North on Wednesday. According to them, 85 people were arrested, including children. At the court hearing on Thursday, people were shocked when a [...]]]></description>
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