28/2/08

Rival Kenya factions OK sharing power
NAIROBI, KENYA — Kenya’s presidential rivals agreed Thursday to share power in a coalition government aimed at ending post-election chaos that has kil …
www.santafenewmexican.com/World%20News/
kenya-Rival-factions-OK-power-sharing

Kenya rivals reach peace agreement
International Herald Tribune – France
By Jeffrey Gettleman NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenya’s rival leaders broke their tense standoff on Thursday, agreeing to share power in a deal that may end the …
www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/29/africa/29kenya.php

Kenya assault the status quo
CricInfo.com – UK
They have since reached a World Cup semi-final in 2003, but arguably Kenya’s finest hour remains their first assault on the status quo, two tournaments …
content-www.cricinfo.com/magazine/
content/current/story/149946.html

Kenya: Deal Done
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
The landmark pact establishes a coalition government, which radically alters the way Kenya would be governed with Mr Odinga becoming independent Kenya’s …
allafrica.com/stories/200802281079.html

Kenya: New Chapter Opened, Says ODM Leader
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga Thursday described the signing of the deal as historic moment for Kenya. Mr Odinga said for the …
allafrica.com/stories/200802281143.html

Progress in Kenya
By Jonathan Werve(Jonathan Werve)
IHT: Power-sharing agreement is reached in Kenya Quoting:. Kenyan political leaders ended a two-month standoff on Thursday that had plunged this country into violence, reaching a long-sought agreement to share power between the …
commons.globalintegrity.org/2008/02/progress-in-kenya.html

Kenya: Deal Renews Hope for Boom
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
A new hope for Kenya was born yesterday after the Government and opposition reached a power-sharing deal, potentially ushering in an era of political…
allafrica.com/stories/200802280983.html

Kenya: Annan Steers Rivals to End Crisis
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
“It is a foundation for reconciliation that aims at restoring Kenya to the rightful place,” he added. Annan said he would reconvene the mediation talks this …
allafrica.com/stories/200802280959.html

Kenya: International Community is Not Meddling
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
This partly explains the growing lobby in Kenya in recent times that is attempting to assert a Kenyanness that is ill-defined and plainly illusory.…
allafrica.com/stories/200802280950.html

Kenya: CBK Warns of Coffee Smuggling Amid Boom
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Growing areas in western Kenya, especially around Kisii are known to witness the worst cases of coffee smuggling into neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda while …
allafrica.com/stories/200802280986.html

After Tough Words from US, Kenya Rivals Sign Peace Deal
Nairobi, Kenya (CNSNews.com) – Under pressure from the international community and facing unspecified warnings from the United States, Kenya’s political rivals Thursday agreed to a power-sharing deal to end a violent, two-month-old …
www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/
ForeignBureaus/archive/200802/FOR20080228c.html

Kenya / Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the CFSP …
By appablog
COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Brussels, 28 February 2008 S090/08 Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the CFSP, welcomes the political agreement reached in Kenya Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and …
appablog.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/kenya-javier-solana-eu
-high-representative-for-the-cfsp-welcomes-the-political-
agreement-reached-in-kenya/

Peace Deal Signed in Kenya
By Jason Haber
kenya.jpg. Finally, a post-election deal has been signed in Kenya. This should mark the end of the violence that has gripped the nation since the end of December. After signing the agreement, Kenya’s rival politicians shook hands and …
blog.iconflict.com/peace-deal-signed-in-kenya/

Kenya rivals forge coalition to end crisis
Swissinfo – Switzerland
By C. Bryson Hull and Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s president and opposition leader signed a deal to create a power-sharing government on…
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Kenya_rivals_forge
_coalition_to_end_crisis.html?siteSect=143&sid=8793000&cKey
=1204223044000&ty=ti

Key Points of Kenya’s Power-Sharing Deal
The Associated Press –
Key points of Kenya’s power-sharing deal, reached Thursday: _ Kenya will create the post of prime minister, which was demanded by the opposition.…
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZp7u6Zd
MRILxf3XpCuqXLn_GN5gD8V3G20O0

Kenya: Secretary-General Ban Welcomes Accord ‘Breakthrough’
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Urging further measures to end the deadly tensions that erupted after disputed presidential elections in Kenya, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warmly …
allafrica.com/stories/200802280907.html

Kenyan elders want US apology over Obama photo
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
By Noor Ali ISIOLO, Kenya, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Kenyan elders demanded an apology from Washington on Thursday ahead of a planned protest over a controversial …
africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL28031604.html

Key points: Kenya power-sharing deal
BBC News – UK
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have signed a power-sharing agreement which will see the creation of a prime minister post. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7269476.stm

Kenya crisis costs Burundi millions in lost tax
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
By Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Burundi is losing up to $3 million a month in taxes due to the high cost of importing goods through Kenya …
africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnB416123.html

Power Sharing Agreement Reached in Kenya
By Mary L. Dudziak(JB)
Kofi Annan announced today that a power sharing agreement has been reached between Kenya leaders Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent who claimed victory after a disputed presidential election in December, and Raila Odinga, the opposition leader. …
balkin.blogspot.com/2008/02/power-
sharing-agreement-reached-in.html

Kenya signs power-sharing pact
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
“We do have a deal, thus our work on the government structure for Kenya has successfully been completed today,” he said. “In the signed document … we have …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EA3F4972
-22F3-45E5-B329-D15185E08E86.htm

Kenya: Model Or Myth?
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
The present void as exists in Kenya, says Annar Cassam, is very dangerous for it renders both the elections and the observer missions irrelevant and robs …
allafrica.com/stories/200802280676.html

Kenya: Mangu Bounces Back to Top KCSE Chart
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Mangu High school made a dramatic comeback to top last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations the best performance it has …
allafrica.com/stories/200802280635.html

Kenya: Friends United
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Damaris and Nancy were friends and neighbours in Nairobi’s Mathare slum before Kenya was plunged into a post-election crisis in late December 2007.…
allafrica.com/stories/200802280626.html

Can power sharing work in Kenya?
By Rabiya Limbada
We’ve just heard the news that the international mediator Kofi Annan has said that a deal has been reached on power-sharing in Kenya. Mr Annan was speaking after talks between President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition leader Raila Odinga …
worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2008/02/
28/can-power-sharing-work-in-kenya/

Annan succeeds in Kenya!
By Turkana
Kofi Annan suspended Tuesday talks with representatives of Kenya’s government and the opposition, citing a lack of progress in seeking an end to a political crisis over a disputed election. “Given the way the talks are going and the way …
www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/012042.php

Kenya’s rivals ‘reach agreement’
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have reached a deal to end Kenya’s post-poll crisis, ex UN head Kofi Annan… abbym0308. abbym0308; 1; topics: Kenya, Peace Talks.
current.com/items/88854538_kenya_s_rivals_reach_agreement

Calm in Kenya
By rick smith
I talked with my friend Shane this morning – just to check up on him and his family and see how things were going in Kenya. Shane and I go back to our days in Minnesota and I consider him a good friend. Before he took his current …
rickssmith.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/calm-in-kenya/

High level talks to save Kenya
Daily Nation – Nairobi,Kenya
Kenya was thrown into a political crisis after Kibaki was declared the winner of a disputed December 27 presidential election. Violence that followed the …
www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmg
contententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=117871

Kenya Government, Opposition Agree to Share Power (Update1)
Bloomberg – USA
28 (Bloomberg) — Kenya’s government and main opposition party reached an agreement to share power in talks aimed at ending clashes following the East …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2060
1087&sid=a1OmPQEbu1ic&refer=home

Kenya: Dear Kofi Annan…
By Rebecca Wanjiku
In order to achieve normalcy in Kenya, Annan and the international community are in agreement with the ODM in its quest for an immediate political settlement arising out of the disputed December 2007 election before deeper negotiations …
www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/02/28/kenya
-frustrated-kofi-annan-suspends-peace-talks/

African Union chief pushes ahead with Kenya talks
AFP –
Hundreds of thousands of people have also been uprooted, mainly in the capital’s slums and Kenya’s fertile western region, which are regarded as the …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hVadsyyfzH_ShfwzepJ9zJgFrymA

Mass demonstrations called off in Kenya
Opposition leader had threatened demonstrations as a bloody post-election crisis continues.
www.nnntv.org/viewstory.php?story_id_key=1667

Odinga puts off Kenya protests
Financial Times – London,England,UK
By Barney Jopson Raila Odinga, Kenya’s opposition leader, has postponed street protests planned for today that risked fresh violence after the suspension of …
www.ft.com/cms/s/40bd5396-e59f-11dc-9334-0000779fd2ac.html

Kenya: Annan Talks Shift to Raila And Kibaki
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
German envoy to Kenya, Mr Walter Lindner, issued a warning in Nairobi saying: “We support the Annan-led talks and whoever boycotts or derails the mediation …
allafrica.com/stories/200802271054.html

Kenya: City Mayor Picked After Deal
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
A three-day impasse over Nairobi’s mayoral election was resolved on Wednesday through a power-sharing deal between PNU and ODM councillors. …
allafrica.com/stories/200802271058.html

Kenya: EU to Act On Those Who Stall Mediation
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
“The presidency emphasises that a means of effective power sharing in Kenya must be found and that individuals who obstruct the dialogue process will have …
allafrica.com/stories/200802271047.html

Kenya: Ban Ki-moon Urges Accelerated Progress in Talks
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly urged the parties to Kenya’s national dialogue and reconciliation talks, who are locked in a dispute over the …
allafrica.com/stories/200802270925.html

Don’t risk the army in Kenya’s tribal divide
Times Online – UK
Annan, widely seen outside Kenya as the best hope for brokering a solution, has been reluctant to call a formal end to the process. …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/
columnists/bronwen_maddox/article3448972.ece

Kenya: Kibaki’s Coalition Proposal Over Post Dismissed
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
In a statement from the Presidential Press Service, Kibaki said he had met with the chief mediator in the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation process …
allafrica.com/stories/200802271051.html

STATE OF THE NATION – Lords of Poverty have fanned hatred in Kenya …
Daily Nation – Nairobi,Kenya
In Kenya. If Kibera is indeed the world’s biggest slum — I don’t know who measures these things, or how — then it is currently also the biggest single act …
www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmg
contententry.asp?category_id=39&newsid=117848

27/2/08

True leaders owe us hope of creating a new Kenya
By Sec Gen Dick Kamau
Kenya has no room for warlords. If we previously underrated our importance to the continent and the rest of the world, now we know better. Our country is beautiful and precious. Only true leaders deserve to govern it. …
chamachamwananchi.wordpress.com/2008/02/27
/true-leaders-owe-us-hope-of-creating-a-new-kenya/

My Dream About The Next President Of Kenya
By chris(chris)
For the sake of much needed hope and optimism, let us assume that Kenya shall get over this recent snag in the negotiations. But first let us acknowledge that if indeed we go the coalition way, neither Kibaki nor Raila will be what his …
kumekucha.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-
dream-about-next-president-of-kenya.html

Exploring How The Western Media Distorts the Crisis in Kenya
A few nights ago, I received a text message from a friend in Kenya. Afraid of being attacked by members…
www.towardfreedom.com/home/index.php?option
=com_content&task=view&id=1244&Itemid=0

How far will Mungiki go?
By xXx ~ Jac ~ xXx(xXx ~ Jac ~ xXx)
27th February is a day of public and online action to demonstrate solidarity with the people of Kenya and call on the Kenyan government to protect people from politically-motivated and ethnic violence. There are street protests taking …
kenya-afrika.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-far-will-mungiki-go.html

USE OF KENYA ARMED FORCES IN THE CURRENT CRISIS
By ikenya5
The use of Kenya armed forces is gaining ground in the international arena with Britain yesterday saying that the Kenyan army is now “by far the best option” to stop the looming bloodbath as peace talks in Nairobi between PNU and ODM …
ikenya5.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/use-of-
kenya-armed-forces-in-the-current-crisis/

Kenyan town plans demo over Obama Somali photo
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
By Noor Ali ISIOLO, Kenya, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Residents of a remote Kenyan town plan a demonstration on Friday over a photo of US presidential hopeful…
africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL27073547.html

Kenya: Nancy Wanjiru – “Violence More Out of Jealousy Than Tribalism”
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
“I therefore returned from hospital and headed for the Kenya Air Force compound not far from Mathare where many other displaced people had fled.…
allafrica.com/stories/200802270833.html

Kenya: Amid Political Crisis, Food Shortages Loom
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Elizabeth Mutai, who farms passion fruit in the Keiyo district in Kenya’s Rift Valley, is worried. Sales of the crop has dropped significantly since the …
allafrica.com/stories/200802270810.html

Kenya: Odinga still optimistic about settlement
Radio Netherlands – Netherlands
Nairobi – Kenya’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) opposition party, has called off a mass demonstration planned for Thursday. ODM leader Raila Odinga has …
www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/5660859/
Kenya-Odinga-still-optimistic-about-settlement

Hats off for candidates
Chicago Tribune – United States
The photograph was taken during Obama’s 2006 visit to Kenya, his late father’s homeland. It shows Obama trying on local garb, including a turban,…
www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/
chi-oped0227pagefeb27,0,4357669.column

Resettlement of Kenya’s Displaced Strains Families; Society
Voice of America – USA
By Scott Bobb The violence following the disputed elections in Kenya killed more than one-thousand people and displaced an estimated 600000 more. …
www.voanews.com/english/2008-02-27-voa19.cfm

Africa Unscrambled: Kenya’s Quieter Peace Efforts
Independent – London,England,UK
Groups like Concerned Citizens for Peace and PeaceNet Kenya have been coordinating almost daily events. The latest, in conjunction with Sarakasi,…
blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/02/africa-unscra-5.html

Kenya’s opposition cancels protests at Annan’s request
USA Today – USA
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s opposition leader backed off plans for mass protests Wednesday at the request of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, …
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-02-27-kenya-election_N.htm

Kenya: Talks Suspended As US Threatens to Act
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Mediation talks between the Government and ODM were suspended Tuesday as the United States warned that it would take action against whoever obstructs the …
allafrica.com/stories/200802261212.html

Setback in Kenya
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Hopes were dashed again in Kenya on Tuesday as former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan suspended mediation talks between presidential rivals Mwai Kibaki and …
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/ase
ction/la-ed-kenya27feb27,1,5400698.story

Kenya: model or myth?
2008-02-25 The present void as exists in Kenya, says Annar Cassam, is very dangerous for it renders both the elections and the observer missions irrelevant and robs the voters of their democratic rights twice. …
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/46349

I fear for Kenya
By Ben
Things in Kenya are very serious again. Details as usual are here (Standard), here (Daily Nation) and here (NYTimes for an American-oriented summary). Be sure to check out the editorials, opinions and commentaries from the Kenyan papers …
benbyerly.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/i-fear-for-kenya/

Annan suspends mediation talks in Kenya
Boston Globe – United States
(Bernat Armangue/Associated Press) NAIROBI – Complaining that efforts to resolve Kenya’s political crisis have stalled, former UN secretary-general Kofi …
www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/
2008/02/27/annan_suspends_mediation_talks_in_kenya

Uganda: Kenya Crisis National, Says EAC Delegation
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
THE East African Community (EAC) secretariat is not directly involved in brokering peace in Kenya because it is a national conflict. …
allafrica.com/stories/200802270063.html