Word: kibera
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...sets over Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum, a sweet smell wafts through a small house where Malahasen Juma is cooking dinner for her eight children: a handful of onions, chopped and tossed into a pot of steaming maize porridge and leftover vegetables. Until recently Juma would spice up suppers with beef or fish stews. But not now. "Everything is more expensive," she says. "The children need milk, but I cannot afford that. Meat is a luxury now, not a necessity. We are just living at God's mercy...
...Pain in Africa The million or so people living in Kibera, the Kenyan slum, are what the WFP calls "the new face of hunger." They are victims of soaring prices, not just of food but also of more costly staples such as fuel, charcoal, cooking oil and kerosene. Residents can almost feel themselves becoming poorer by the day. The sensation is particularly cruel because Kibera's stores have adequate supplies, but the tomatoes lie rotting on the shelves alongside untouched bags of rice and cereal: they are now too expensive for locals to buy and cook. "We are not eating...
...forming a coalition government, claiming that the Kenyan leader and his allies had no intention of honoring a power-sharing agreement that ended more than a month of bloodshed after disputed December elections. As news of Tuesday's decision spread, protests broke out in the Nairobi slum of Kibera and the western city of Kisumu, both strongholds of opposition leader Raila Odinga. Demonstrators who had chanted "No Raila, no peace" last December this time shouted "No cabinet, no peace...
...Kenyan police said they had arrested three people in Were's killing. Still, Were's death and the prolonged tension spurred attacks that included the beheading of a doctor in the nearby Kibera slum, an Odinga stronghold, and several reports of forcible circumcision of Luos, who traditionally do not practice that rite. The violence has pitted members of Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, long accused of being the object of favors from successive Kenyan governments, against Luos, Luhyas and Kalenjin, which had hoped an Odinga victory in the December 27 election would right decades of perceived injustices...
...fighting for justice in Kenya," said Roland Peterson, who wore a bright white woolen hat embroidered with a New York Yankees logo, dancing around a flaming barricade in the Kibera slum. "It was peaceful but now they are killing our people, we can't maintain peace while they are killing our people. We ought to fight...