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...took an unprecedented concert of international diplomatic pressure, united behind former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to force Kenya back from the precipice. In a power-sharing deal, opposition leader Raila Odinga will now serve as Prime Minister while the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki will remain in that post. All of Africa and Kenya's friends abroad breathed a sigh of relief when the deal was signed...
...recent commencement picks. It’s universally recognized that only a world figure—political or diplomatic, that is—could possibly be worthy of the lectern in Tercentenary Theatre and the Harvard doctorate that goes with it. However, not since U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressed the plenum in 2004 has a man of suitable credentials been chosen. Each of us has sacrificed time and treasure to make it to the end of our Harvard careers, and so the choice of an overpaid peddler of the prepubescent equivalent of drugstore paperbacks is plainly insulting...
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was at the end of his rope this week. The diplomat has been the often-optimistic mediator at talks in Kenya aimed to resolve the dispute over December's presidential elections between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga. But at a press conference on Tuesday, a visibly frustrated Annan said he would suspend the peace talks that had continually stalled due to hard-liners on both negotiating teams. Annan said he was then going to "take the matters up" with the leaders themselves...
...plan worked. Two days later, the bitter Kenyan rivals signed a power-sharing deal that will establish a coalition government and potentially end the crisis that has claimed more than 1,500 lives. "Compromise was necessary for the survival of this country," Annan said at the signing of the deal on Thursday. Kenya's latest elections saw incumbent President Kibaki defeat Odinga in a race opposition supporters claim was rigged. Riots and looting occurred nationwide, blocking trade routes and killing over hundreds. Aid agencies estimate nearly half a million people have been displaced by the conflict. Brutal ethnic clashes erupted...
...Kenya after Raila Odinga, the leader of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement, accused Kibaki of stealing the election. It opened up tribal fissures that many thought Kenya had long ago moved beyond. On Feb. 28, after on-again-off-again negotiations led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, the two bitter rivals agreed to form a coalition government.) While there is simple pride at Obama's rise to prominence in the U.S., there has also been hope that his influence could go a long way toward calming the country's political turmoil. He has kept in regular touch with...