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worker examines the remains of a tea plantation torched by arsonists in Kericho town January 6, 2008. Kenya's large Rift Valley tea estates say they should weather political and ethnic violence targeting their work force, but it is cold comfort to the roughly 20,000 tea pickers who had to run for their lives
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Benard, 5, and Kelvine,4, who were killed during post-election unrest, are prepared for burial at the morturary in Kisumu, 11 January 2008. A mother and her two sons died when the vehicle they were riding was trying to escape during civil unrest in post-election violence. Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan on Friday appealed for restraint from the leading players in the post-election crisis in Kenya, in a bid to prevent another flare-up of violence. The violence has left at least 600 people dead and forced nearly 260,000 people from their homes
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Sylvia Akinyi Ngayo sheds a tear as she watches the burial of her mom and two brothers in Kisumu, Kenya, 11 January 2008. Ngayo's family died when the vehicle they were riding was trying to escape during civil unrest in post-election violence. Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan on Friday appealed for restraint from the leading players in the post-election crisis in Kenya, in a bid to prevent another flare-up of violence
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A child clutches a photo of her family as she watches the burial of relatives in Kisumu, 11 January 2008. Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan appealed 11 January for restraint from the leading players in the post-election crisis in Kenya, in a bid to prevent another flare-up of violence
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A displaced woman sits with her children and their belongings after ethnic violence in Nairobi's Mathera slums January 12, 2008. Kenya's opposition on Friday called three days of nationwide protests next week after mediation failed and the country's post-election crisis worsened. More than 250,000 Kenyans have been made homeless by ethnic clashes since President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in on December 30
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KENYA - JANUARY 12: A family portrait with US Senator Barack Obama (back row 2nd from left) hangs in his family house on January 12, 2008 in Kogelo, western Kenya. Barack Hussein Obama, father of US presidential candidate hopeful Obama, was born and raised in Kogelo. He died in a car accident in 1982. Senator Barack Obama's parents separated when he was young
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KOGELO, KENYA - JANUARY 12: US Senator Barack Obama's step-grandmother Sarah Obama sits outside her house on January 12, 2008 in Kogelo, western Kenya. Barack Hussein Obama, father of US presidential candidate hopeful Obama, was born and raised in Kogelo. He died in a car accident in 1982. Senator Barack Obama's parents separated when he was young
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A displaced Kenyan child walks away after receiving tea and cakes for breakfast, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008, at a sports arena at the Nairobi Trade Fair grounds where they took shelter. Kenya's main opposition party plans mass rallies across the East African nation to protest President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, a spokesman said Friday
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The sister of Roda Angayo, 26, cries as Roda's and her children Benard, 5, and Kelvine,4, killed during post-election unrest, are prepared for burial at the morturary in Kisumu, 11 January 2008. One side of the children's coffins had to be broken by a mortuary worker to let the legs out as the caskets were too small for the boys. Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan on Friday appealed for restraint from the leading players in the post-election crisis in Kenya, in a bid to prevent another flare-up of violence. The violence has left at least 600 people dead and forced nearly 260,000 people from their homes.
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woman displaced after ethnic violence rests at a temporary shelter in Nakuru, 160 km (98 miles) west of Nairobi, January 10, 2008. African Union Chairman John Kufuor quit Kenya on Thursday without a deal to end a political crisis that has killed 500 people, leaving the president and opposition leader accusing each other of wrecking talks
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People look at the body of man which was found on a street in Nairobi's Kibera slum January 11, 2008. Kenya's opposition said on Friday it planned to restart protests across the east African nation against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election after the failure of African Union (AU) mediation
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Women and children queue for food aid being distributed by the Kenyan Red Cross at Korogocho slum in Nairobi, January 11, 2008. An estimated 500,000 people would need humanitarian aid including vital food rations after Kenya's disputed election results sparked ethnic violence that has killed more than 500 people and uprooted hundred of thousands, the United Nations said on Friday
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Orange Democratic Movement's (ODM) Raila Ondinga gives a press conference, in Nairobi, 11 January 2008. Kenya's opposition vowed today to resume mass protests after a week of intense diplomacy failed to resolve the political crisis between President Mwai Kibaki and his rival Raila Odinga. The nationwide unrest that followed the December 30 announcement of Kibaki's election win has claimed at least 600 lives and displaced more then 250,000 people
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People displaced during post-election violence are seen in a temporary shelter in Burnt Forest January 6, 2008. Named for its birth by fire high up in Kenya's fertile Rift Valley, Burnt Forest is ablaze again. More than a week after some of the worst clashes in Kenya over a disputed presidential election, farmsteads in the Rift are still smouldering and smoke from new fires is rising over the green valleys. Residents say this election was only the spark for tinder set down in 1992 under President Daniel arap Moi, in a manipulation of tribal rivalries designed to defeat a threat to his power, the advent of multi-party democracy. Picture taken January 6, 2008
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A woman cries during a march for peace, organised by a women's group which supports the opposition's candidate Raila Odinga, in Nairobi January 10, 2008. Foreign mediators raised the pressure on Kenya's president and opposition leader on Thursday to end post-electoral turmoil that has killed 500 people, but there was little sign the two were ready to meet or compromise
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MOMBASA, KENYA - JANUARY 10: A worker prepares the beach near a private resort hotel on January 10, 2008 in Mombasa, Kenya. Tourism is a $1 billion industry in Kenya. Some tour operators have temporarily banned package holidays over fear of post election violence
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This photo released by Presidential Press Services, Kalonso Musyoka, of the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya, is sworn in as Vice President and Minister for Home Affairs at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. The political violence since the Dec. 27 elections in Kenya has continued as has the exodus of refugees
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What led to such destruction in Kenya
Analysts blame poverty more than tribal warfare as UN Millennium City goes from hub to hulk
January 13, 2008
Mitch Potter
Toronto Star
KISUMU, Kenya – The mess that is the main drag of Kenya's third-largest city tells the tale: a commercial streetscape dotted with the charred remains of once-thriving shops and factories
Shattered telephone booths line the sidewalks like toppled dominoes, adrift in the debris left behind by successive waves of post-election plunder. Banks, supermarkets, furniture stores and shops stand agape, their security gates ripped aside and innards gone
Private guards stand sentinel outside the stores not yet looted, including the Kisumu branch of Nakumatt, Kenya's leading grocery chain, where lineups for food and water stretch more than a block in the equatorial sun
"This is a bad sign. You don't see lineups like this in Kisumu. It means everyone is bracing for more trouble," says tour company operator Richard Kenyatta
It remains unclear whether Kenya's feuding politicians are in any mood to begin the cleanup
President Mwai Kibaki remains at loggerheads with rival Raila Odinga and a coalition of opponents who say the Dec. 27 election was stolen
Both sides appear intent on taking the government's seats when parliament reconvenes on Tuesday. And in the face of international pressure led by the European Union, the United States and the United Nations, many fear the violence will flare anew amid opposition calls for another wave of demonstrations starting Wednesday
With the country calm enough for journalists to venture out from the capital, Nairobi, the depth of Kenya's setback has become clearer – and nowhere more so than in the westernmost city of Kisumu
Founded in 1901 upon the arrival of the Uganda Railway, Kisumu's prospects looked altogether brighter two years ago when this strategic and scenic hub on the eastern shores of Lake Victoria was named the UN's first Millennium City
The designation was more than symbolic – it meant Kisumu's 500,000-plus residents would be among the first to benefit from the accelerated international focus against poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and environmental degradation inherent in the UN's Millennium Development Goals strategy
Today, an estimated 60 per cent of the city's businesses are ruined – at a cost of an estimated 10,000 jobs, according to a preliminary assessment by the Kisumu Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Many of the city's most prosperous citizens – including a disproportionate number from the Indian ethnic minority – are taking refuge in neighbouring Uganda or in Nairobi, leaving behind factories in tatters
While there is undeniably a tribal element to the unrest – Kisumu is a stronghold for opposition leader Odinga's Luo tribe, which claims historical grievance of sustained disadvantage at the hands of President Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe – the majority of Kenyan analysts say the fault line that matters most is the cleave between have and have-not
"I worry that people buy this nonsense about ethnic warfare because the true context is the marginalization of a society where more than 60 per cent of the people live below the poverty line," says Musambayi Katamanga, University of Nairobi political science lecturer
"Think of it as two Kenyas. The ones with something to lose are not involving themselves and have no difficulty living alongside their wealthy neighbours, regardless of what tribe they belong to
"The other Kenya, the impoverished one, has nothing to do, nowhere to go, no participation in the economic wealth of the country. They expect change, and in the absence of electoral change they are ripe to change things at street level. Because they truly feel they have nothing to lose."
Said Hussein Obama, 41, uncle of the U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, agrees
"People might see it as tribal, Luo versus Kikuyu," says Obama, a mechanic at a Kisumu factory
"But Luos are not bad, Kikuyus are not bad. Poverty is the reason so many turned out to vote in this general election, and the bad election results are the reason the impoverished are rising up. Many are stealing for the sake of stealing, not for political gain
"It is tragic, it is wrong, but what do you do when you cannot provide food for your children? A hungry person has no morality ... only hunger."
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Displaced Kenyans await the distribution of aid at their temporary refuge at the Nairobi Show Grounds, January 13, 2008. Kenya's government should order police to stop using lethal force against protestors, a U.S.-based group said on Sunday as the nation braced for three days of opposition rallies over disputed December 27 polls
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ELDORET, KENYA - JANUARY 06: A child's shoe lies on the ground next to a burnt house in Komoyo on January 6, 2008 near Eldoret, Kenya. After days of ethnic unrest, many Kikuyu people still fear for their safety and are seeking shelter in churches and police stations
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Mohamed Omer
nada ali
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست