Word: nairobi
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Kenyan police and opposition protesters fought running battles across the capital Nairobi on Thursday, as riot police blocked the opposition from holding a mass demonstration in the city center and tribal violence raged on the outskirts...
...just 232,000 votes over Odinga, 62. Kibaki was sworn in about an hour later in a hasty ceremony. His first act in office was to ban live television and radio broadcasts. The European Union has raised "concerns about the accuracy of the final results." The U.S. embassy in Nairobi said there were "serious problems experienced during the vote-counting process." Most damaging, five members of Kenya's Electoral Commission - which Kibaki had tried to pack with loyalists - have come forward to demand an inquiry into the vote...
...declared he will not negotiate with his rival until Kibaki admits he lost the election and steps down. Odinga said he was "pained by what is happening," but swore to force Kibaki from office, and called for a million of his supporters to gather in Uhuru Park in central Nairobi on Jan. 3 to inaugurate him the "people's President." The Kibaki government promptly announced a ban on the rally and, on Jan. 2, accused Odinga's party of "well-organized acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing." Odinga, for his part, sounds eager for confrontation. Asked if he should encourage...
From the air, Kenya is a country on fire. Plumes of blue smoke rise from villages across the Rift Valley. More fires burn in the sprawling townships on the edge of the capital, Nairobi. On the ground, the city is gripped by fear. Police officers man roadblocks across its main arteries and sirens wail on its outer edges. Violence is sporadic, and sudden. In the slum of Karobongi, witnesses said the feared Mungiki sect - a group that weaves Kikuyu tribal mythology with gang rule in the slums - hacked to death several people from rival tribes in reprisal killings, leaving...
...fire to a church where hundreds of Kikuyu were sheltering in the town of Eldoret, burning 50 alive. The fear is that the last four days may be a taste of worse to come. Thursday will see an unprecedented showdown between the government and the opposition in Nairobi's city center. Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for a million of his supporters to converge on Uhuru Park and anoint him the "people's President," to protest an election he claims was rigged by the incumbent, President Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki's government has banned the rally, and in the past...