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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...
...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 in the country's west. Images of hacked bodies and Kenyans...
Even Odinga and Kibaki, who seemed irreconcilable just weeks ago, decided that enough was enough. On Thursday, Kibaki said, "Kenya has room for all of us if we enhance peace and tolerance ... today I stand before you to give a solemn commitment that I will be on the forefront to protect that peace...
...settles back down, Granny Sarah, a non-practicing Muslim whose real name is Sarah Anyango Obama, says: "The senior Barack was a great friend of President Kibaki and also with Raila Odinga, so if Barry becomes President of America he will be well placed to help find peace." (Violence broke out in 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...
...Obamas live about an hour's drive - first on potholed asphalt roads then on a rutted dirt track into the village of Kogelo - from the city of Kisumu, the center of opposition support, standing on the shores of Lake Victoria. The population here is Luo, arch-rivals of President Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe. Angry mobs torched shops, bars and garages belonging to Kikuyu businessmen and forced their families to board buses for their tribal homelands in Central Kenya. In spite of the apparent political breakthrough in the capital Nairobi, the anger remains even if the mobs have been called...