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...Africa's biggest slum, lines are being drawn. Morris Otieno, a trader and businessman, won't say if he is one of the Luo tribesmen in the township of Kibera, on the southwest edge of Nairobi, who have torched shops, battled riot police and dragged rival Kikuyu tribe members into the street to kill them. But he will say that the Kikuyu must go. "We have to move them away from our areas," he says...
Odinga's supporters are just as defiant. "We cannot accept [the election result]," says Otieno, the Kibera businessman. He vows that if the march does not go ahead as planned, there will be worse conflicts to come. "We will go peacefully into town. But if the police interfere, you can guess what will happen. All hell will break loose...
...supporters told TIME that they believe Odinga is the legitimately elected leader of the country, and that the only solution is for Kibaki to step down. "We have been patient. We have lowered our tempers down a bit because we want to get directives from our leaders," says Morris Otieno, 45. "If they say 'Let us go to town, we will go peacefully. If police are going to interfere, you can expect what will happen - hell will break loose...
...hundreds of locals. "If a U.S. Senator can get tested and his wife can get tested, then everybody in this crowd can get tested. Everybody in this city can get tested." "It is good he did this, it shows people how important it is," says Kisumu resident Bernard Otieno, 22, who took an AIDS test last month for the first time. "I found it so good to know my status. It gives you power...
When a judge ruled in the tribe's favor in February, Wambui Otieno obtained an order blocking the burial pending an appeal this month. Wangari Mathai, chairman of Kenya's National Council of Women, last week gathered signatures for a petition that calls on parliament to safeguard the rights of surviving spouses...