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...Kenya continues to boil with unrest, students at Harvard have begun to change summer plans and to collect donations for humanitarian relief. For others, the violence has hit closer to home. Kenyan student Kipyegon A. Kitur ’09 remembers the first day of the new year. That day 50 people were burned alive in a church in Eldoret as they fleed from a mob incensed over the results of the election two days earlier. Kitur, who was spending winter break on campus, called his brother in another Kenyan town. “He said people were screaming...
...chaos in Kenya broke out after the elections of December 23rd. [see correction below] According to election officials, incumbent president Mwai Kibaki narrowly beat Odinga in an election that Odinga and many foreign nations claim was rigged. Building resentment towards the Kikuyu, the ethnic group that has dominated Kenyan politics since independence and to which Kibaki belongs, erupted as angry citizens killed more than 300 people before New Years day. Now more than a quarter million Kenyans have been internally displaced...
Nevertheless, the humanitarian situation in Kenyan slums and the countryside cannot be ignored. The prices of basic food staples have skyrocketed, and the economy has ground to a halt so much of the scarred population has no way to pay for basic necessities. According to a United Nations estimate, more than 500,000 Kenyans will need emergency aid. In the critical humanitarian relief effort, the United States should do its part along with other nations, but it should do no more...
Correction: Monday’s editorial “Dealing with the Kenyan Crisis” incorrectly stated that the Kenyan elections were held December 23. In fact, they were held December 27. The Crimson regrets the error...
...Democrats On Tuesday night, as the results started tight and stayed that way, Obama ate dinner at his Nashua hotel with his wife Michelle and his Kenyan sister Auma - no kids, no aides. As the night got longer, his would-be victory rally was tomblike. You could hear change drop. Nothing that had happened in the previous 96 hours had prepared either side for what had taken place across New Hampshire since the polls opened at dawn...