1. Posted on Thursday 3 January 2008 - 13:06

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   AfricaNews, photo's by: Dipesh Pabari

   Kenya's opposition party Orange Democratic Movement has called off Thursday's banned public rally and urged its supporters to go home. But Odinga's followers hope to organize another demonstration next week.

   

   This moring followers of Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement were blocked by government forces who used water cannon and teargas when they tried to get to the location of the rally in the city centre of Nairobi.
   
   Odinga, who claims to be the winner of the presidential elections, expected today a crowd of ‘a million’ supporters to rally against the re-election of Kibaki. A high ranked officer of Odinga’s party said today that the demonstration will now take place on January 8th.
   
   Vote probe
   
   In a statement that was broadcasted on national television on Thursday the Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako has called for an independent investigation into vote results that led to President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
   
   Mr Wako stated that "a proper tally of the valid certificates returned and confirmed should be undertaken immediately".
   
   The Standard reports that the chairman of the Electoral Commission, Mr Samuel Kivuitu acted under a pressure when he announced the fiercely contested presidential election results. The announcement plunged the country into a post-election violence of a scale never witnessed before.
   
   Strong terms
   
   Up to now both rivals are accusing each other in very strong terms. A government spokesman alleged to the BBC that Mr Odinga's supporters were "engaging in ethnic cleansing" in an "organised, calculated manner". But Mr Odinga countered that Mr Kibaki's government was "guilty, directly, of genocide". Asked if he would urge his supporters to calm down, Mr Odinga told the BBC: "I refuse to be asked to give the Kenyan people an anaesthetic so that they can be raped."
   
   More than 300 people have been killed and at least 70,000 driven from their homes across Kenya since Sunday.
   
   Also read:
   - Bitterness after failed ODM rally (VIDEO)
   - Independent experts to compute Kenyan vote
   - Kenya: Towards another failed state.
   
   Dipesh Pabari made these pictures in Kisumu, in the western part of Kenya.

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1. Posted on Wednesday 02 January 2008 14:20

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   AfricaNews editor

   

   
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   Also weblogger Kenyan Pundit reports that the president has called a meeting of all MPs at State House at 3:00 pm.
   
   http://www.kenyanpundit.com/

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2. Posted on Wednesday 02 January 2008 14:59

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   truus

   

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   Check also the pictures on INSIGHT KENYA weblog: http://josephkaroki.wordpress.com/.
   
   Shocking!

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3. Posted on Wednesday 02 January 2008 15:34

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   bartlacroix

   

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   Also the weblog http://www.abunuwasi.com/ has regular updates on the situation in Kenya.

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4. Posted on Wednesday 02 January 2008 15:53

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   truus

   

   truus groot
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   "Ghanaian president and African Union chairman John Kufuor is planning a mediation mission to Kenya to help end ethnic killing triggered by a disputed election"
   
   http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnBAN250878.html

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5. Posted on Wednesday 02 January 2008 16:10

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   Ben

   

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   Does anyone know how many people will be attending the rally tomorrow?

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   www.africa-interactive.net

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6. Posted on Wednesday 02 January 2008 17:46

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   truus

   

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   "It is expected that 500,000 people will attend the rally"

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7. Posted on Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:02

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   Dipesh

   

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   From a very reliable source:
   "According to reliable analysts with whom I've spoken, there are essentially two sets of crises that have developed. First the stolen election has ignited the fires and resentments are being expressed largely, but not exclusively, along ethnic lines. But that has ignited a longer standing crisis especially in the Rift Valley and probably also in Coast Province too: this goes back to the actions of Moi in the 1990s when he oversaw an attempted ethnic cleansing in the Rift Valley. That has now re-emerged, and it seems that we are about to witness a major escalation of ethnic violence against the Kikuyu. Whereas in the urban centres Raila and Kibaki may be able to call a halt to the violence, analysts believe that they have no control over those who are on the brink of carrying out a major ethnic cleansing. This is an extremely serious and volatile situation. If what analysts say is about to happen, the massacre in the church in Eldoret is only the beginning. I hope they are wrong, but something tells me that what they say rings true."

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8. Posted on Thursday 03 January 2008 15:21

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   bartlacroix

   

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   The White African has made a list of webloggers that are covering the elections.

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