News Roundup 16 January (2)
Violent clashes at Kenya protests
Kenyan police fire tear gas and bullets at opposition activists defying a ban on election protests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/7190777.stm
Polls Turned Neighbours Into Enemies
Amid the usual piles of fetid rubbish on the streets of Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum, there was clear evidence of the recent political violence in the blackened buildings and boarded-up shops. A row of kiosks was reduced to a pile of rubble and cinders; several larger buildings were now mere charred shells.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200801160667.html
Kenyan opposition protests flop in capital
Source: Reuters By Tim Cocks NAIROBI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Just a few hundred tired-looking demonstrators marched in Kenya’s capital on Wednesday before being chased back into their slums by police firing teargas. ...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16824740.htm
Protests Bring New Violence in Kenya
Police clashed with demonstrators, shooting several, according to witnesses, while opposition leaders vowed to press ahead with their protests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/world/africa/17kenya.html
Opposition Vows to Go On With Protests
ODM leader Raila Odinga has today said that they will continue peaceful demonstrations across the country until they get “justice” over the disputed presidential election.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200801160662.html
KENYA: Polls turned neighbours into enemies
NAIROBI AND NAKURU Wednesday, January 16, 2008 (IRIN) - Amid the usual piles of fetid rubbish on the streets of Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum, there was clear evidence of the recent political violence in the blackened buildings and boarded-up shops. A row of kiosks was reduced to a pile of rubble and cinders; several larger buildings were now mere charred shells.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=76269
UGANDA: More refugees flee from neighbouring Kenya
BUSIA, UGANDA Wednesday, January 16, 2008 (IRIN) - Kenyans fearing more political violence are continuing to seek refuge in neighbouring Uganda, according to aid workers. “Since Saturday [12 January], we have noticed an increase in the number of people coming in and we have registered dozens every day at a time when the situation seemed to have normalised,” Geoffrey Ebong, head of the UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) sub-office for eastern Uganda, told IRIN at the Integrated Primary School in the border town of Busia. About 2,000 refugees are camped at the school.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=76272
KENYA: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence
NAIROBI Tuesday, January 15, 2008 (IRIN) - As Kenya counts the human and material cost of the political violence, hospitals are reporting an increase in reported rapes during the immediate post-election period, spurring the government and health organisations to find ways to treat these cases as well as protect the displaced from further incidents of sexual violence.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=76249
KENYA: Multimedia coverage, links and stories
NAIROBI Monday, January 07, 2008 (IRIN) - Kenyan health workers grapple with conflict-related sexual violence. NAIROBI, 15 January 2008 (IRIN) - As Kenya counts the human and material cost of the political violence, hospitals are reporting an increase in reported rapes during the immediate post-election period, spurring the government and health organisations to find ways to treat these cases as well as protect the displaced from further incidents of sexual violence.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=76116
More Refugees Flee From Neighbouring Kenya
Kenyans fearing more political violence are continuing to seek refuge in neighbouring Uganda, according to aid workers.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200801160683.html
Kenya opposition chased by police
Kenyan opposition leaders trying to march in Nairobi are chased from the city centre by police firing tear gas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/7190777.stm
Police use “strong arm” tactics to disperse demonstrations
A defiant Raila Odinga said today that he was prepared to work with Mwai Kibaki’s government but not under him and called for the government to set a new date for elections. “We are going to keep up the pressure from every legal angle and through all peaceful means until the government agrees to acknowledge that the election results were false and that a solution must found to the political crisis,” Odinga spokesman Salim Lone told The Associated Press. “The rallies will show the government that the people of Kenya will not allow the theft of the election to stand.”
http://kenyanemergency.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/police-use-strong-arm-tactics-to-disperse-demonstrations/
Kenyan police battle opposition protesters
Kenyan police battled hundreds of opposition protesters on Wednesday, killing one, as the opposition defied a ban on rallies against President Mwai Kibaki’s disputed re-election, witnesses said. In the western opposition stronghold of Kisumu and the coastal city of Mombasa youths began gathering in the morning, some burning tyres.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=329815
Dark Cloud Reveals Its Silver Lining
Kenyan blogger Daudi Were reflects on events in Parliament in Nairobi on Tuesday.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200801160370.html
Police Break Up Protests With Teargas
Police have broken demonstrations in Mombasa, Kisumu and Migori as various other towns across the country remained tense following protest rallies called by the Orange Democratic Movement.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200801160318.html
Kenyan Opposition Plans More Protest
Kenya was in partial lockdown mode as opposition supporters pressed on with plans for nationwide protests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/world/africa/17kenya.html
Opposition and Police Set for Confrontation
Riot police have braved the morning drizzle and cordoned off Nairobi’s Uhuru Park, one of the key venues of today’s mass protests called by the Orange Democratic Movement.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200801160191.html
Kenyan police fire teargas into opposition rallies
Police used teargas to disperse protesters in Kenyan cities to once again suppress planned opposition rallies against the bitterly disputed re-election of president Mwai Kibaki
http://www.guardian.co.uk/kenya/story/0,,2241588,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
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