6/1/08

US Has Big Stake In Steering Kenya Back From Brink
By forums@www.military-quotes.com (Team Infidel)
1 Country reeling from postelection violence is strategically vital in counterterrorism and aid efforts in the volatile Horn of Africa By Paul Salopek, Tribune foreign correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya—Mary Wambui sat dazed with grief under …
www.military-quotes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51229

“No Country for Old Hatreds”: Wainaina on Kenya
TEDGlobal 2007 speaker Binyavanga Wainaina has an opinion piece in today’s New York Times, “No Country for Old Hatreds,” that offers some backstory on the violent post-election crisis in Kenya. It’s not about “ancient feuds,” as some …
blog.ted.com/2008/01/no_country_for.php

Kenya [Priyesh Vaghjiani Camden]
The political unrest in Kenya is causing so much grief to her citizens. Kenya came so far to achieve economic stability and fairly stable political climate and almost in an instant this was completely undone and the tribal mentality is …
www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=96517

Kenya: Deep lessons for South Africa
By Ray Hartley
THE events of the last two weeks in Kenya have exposed just how fragile democracy is when it does not enjoy the protection of a country’s political leadership. Kenya has become the scene of two very different political dynamics which …
blogs.thetimes.co.za/hartley/2008/01/06/
kenya-deep-lessons-for-south-africa/

Kenya: A Nation At a Crossroads
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
The meeting took place as the Pope sent in a message of hope and prayer for Kenya. It was also the day the British Foreign office once again expressed…
allafrica.com/stories/200801060011.html

Kenya faces health crisis
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
A devastating health emergency could occur in Kenya if more humanitarian aid is not delivered to those displaced by the country’s political violence. …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8970B
B81-C964-4149-AE94-E8E86E5122F0.htm

US mediates Kenya crisis as opposition rejects govt offer
AFP –
African Union head and Ghana President John Kufuor is expected in Kenya in the next two days to take part in efforts to talk the rivals out of the political …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iUXcAuSz8vgNUe4PHnkyFL-UZ3_Q

Kenya’s woes began with British rule
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The immediate cause of the crisis was Kenya’s delicate ethnic balance. The President, Mwai Kibaki, is a member of Kenya’s largest and probably most powerful …
www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/kenyas-woes-began
-with-british-rule/2008/01/06/1199554482222.html

PM calls for urgent talks in Kenya
The Press Association –
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged political leaders in Kenya to move“urgently” to talks to bring an end to the bloodshed following the east African …
ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5
gXuHeiYAL1_u_ObpKXjHuAbM8OVQ

Mugumo Munene: Disputed election has left death and destruction in …
Kansas City Star – MO,USA
By now, the world knows the story here in Kenya. A disputed election has turned our country inside out, wreaking havoc from the coastal city of Mombassa to …
www.kansascity.com/105/story/432527.html

Health crisis to hit Kenya ‘in days’
The Australian – Sydney,Australia
A DEVASTATING health emergency looms in Kenya, where post-election violence has killed hundreds and displaced a quarter of a million people, British charity …
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/sto
ry/0,25197,23014300-32682,00.html

Red Cross Steps Up Aid to Displaced in Kenya
Voice of America – USA
The Red Cross reports at least 350 people were killed and thousands wounded in ethnic clashes in Kenya. The United Nations estimates about a quarter of a …
www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-06-voa8.cfm

Verbatim: Cry for Kenya
Jerusalem Post – Israel
But much of our family is in Kenya. What they tell us makes us fear for their lives – and for the country. A man runs across the road holding a looted gas …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517298
510&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Kenya too important to let collapse
Baltimore Sun – United States
By Jonathan Stevenson January 6, 2008 Kenya has been the anchor of political stability in East Africa. But in recent days, 300 people have been killed and …
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/
oped/bal-op.kenya06jan06,0,3458680.story

Kenya’s new refugees take stock of their losses
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
By Tim Cocks TARAKWA, Kenya, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Until a few days ago, Paul Kariuki had only seen refugees of African conflicts on television — it never …
africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL06434861.html

Across country, Kenya’s tribes segregate themselves President …
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
(01-05) 04:00 PST Nairobi, Kenya — At the edge of a Nairobi neighborhood called the Ghetto, there is a bridge across a gray, stinking creek, …
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/05/MN45UA484.DTL

What’s Tearing Kenya Apart? History, for One Thing.
Washington Post – United States
Now Kenya, too, appears to be on the brink. The East African country— widely seen as a model of economic and democratic progress since 2002, …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article
/2008/01/04/AR2008010404300.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

AU chief to visit Kenya for mediation between president, opposition
Xinhua – China
5 (Xinhua) — The chairman of the African Union (AU), Ghanaian President John Kufuor, will travel to Kenya next week to mediate between the country’s …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/06/content_7372351.htm

Canada gives aid as humanitarian crisis in post-elections Kenya grows
National Post – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Vengeful gangs carrying kerosene and machetes left an organized map of destruction in the Kibera slums after the allegedly rigged results of Kenya’s …
www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=218510

Solution to woes of immigrants from India to other countries …
Kenya is burning for quite sometime. The problem is result of immigration from India, particularly the Gujaratis and also of immigration from other countries that has been taking place for quite a longtime and …
o3.indiatimes.com/ssbedi1945/archive/2008/01/06/4856411.aspx

Kenya News: Kibaki Offer on Unity Government; Electoral Commission …
By Pan-African News Wire(Pan-African News Wire)
Meanwhile, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it expected that its convoy of 20 trucks with nearly 700 tonnes of food would leave the port of Mombasa on Sunday to help ease the crippling shortages of food across Kenya. …
panafricannews.blogspot.com/2008/01/
kenya-news-kibaki-offer-on-unity.html

‘Kill two, get one free’: Kenya’s cry of hate
Times Online – UK
SYLVIA MUDEGU knew she was in grave danger in the violent aftermath of Kenya’s disputed presidential election when there was a tremendous hammering on the …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3137608.ece

Tribal strife leaves Kenya on the brink of humanitarian disaster
Independent – London,England,UK
Steve Bloomfield reports A humanitarian crisis is building in Kenya in the aftermath of the violence that followed the country’s elections. …
news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article3312840.ece

Situation in Kenya Will Not Impact Tanzania
By Jambo Forums
The situation in Kenya has been making headlines lately, prompting questions from many of you regarding its potential impact on Tanzania. I want to state without reservation that the situation in nearby Kenya presents no problem …
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5/1/08

Members of the two tribes at war over Kenya’s election results …
The Times – Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
As the violence that began a week ago spread through Kenya, leaving the country in turmoil, Ikwaras’s 19- year-old daughter, Mercy, and her 21-year- old son …
www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/News/Article.aspx?id=673051

Kenya’s killing fields
Sunday Herald – Glasgow,Scotland,UK
James Kibaru, a young businessman who runs a reinsurance company, made a toast to “peace in Kenya” then launched into the national anthem. …
www.sundayherald.com/international/shi
nternational/display.var.1945345.0.0.php

African Union boss to mediate in Kenya
NEWS.com.au – Australia
THE chairman of the African Union, Ghana President John Kufuor, will travel to Kenya to mediate between that country’s violently opposed political factions. …
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23013416-23109,00.html

Kenya: Tutu – Kibaki Ready for Coalition
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Tutu, who returned to South Africa yesterday, also met ODM-Kenya leader, Mr Kalonzo Musyoka. Kalonzo said dialogue among leaders was vital for the nation. …
allafrica.com/stories/200801050006.html