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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...
...were coalition allies in the 2002 election, but fell out when Kibaki failed to appoint Odinga Prime Minister. Five years later, positions are hardening further. Kibaki virtually disappeared after he was named winner, making no televised announcement. Odinga, meanwhile, has 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...
...taking the same positions - on immigration, most notably - that you used to take, especially when you keep getting caught having illegals tend your garden. The sheer cynicism is driving Romney's Republican opponents nuts. He is wildly unpopular among his peers. "I just hate the guy," says a rival campaign manager. "If we can't win, I want to be sure he loses...
...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 the roads strewn with limbs. Clashes between tribes also erupted in the tin-shack slum of Mathare, preventing aid workers from delivering daily drops of food and medicine...
...city of Eldoret were from the Kikuyu tribe, which makes up about 22% of the country and backed President Mwai Kibaki's bid for a second term. Kibaki had claimed victory by a margin of a little over 200,000 after several suspicious moves appeared to erase his rival's huge lead in the count...