Africa: Five African Leaders to Attend World Economic Forum

7 June, 2009 in Africa, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

source: allAfrica 5 June 2009 Johannesburg — Five African Heads of State have confirmed their attendance for the Word Economic Forum (WEF) scheduled for next week. “Heads of State who had confirmed their participation included Presidents Jacob Zuma, Kenya’s Raila Amolo Odinga, Lesotho’s Pakalitha Mosisili, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and Zambia’s Rupiah Bwezani Banda,” said WEF [...]

Violence follows Kenya peace plan

3 February, 2008 in Kenya

source: BBC More than 20 people have died in fresh violence in western Kenya since Friday’s agreement by government and opposition on a framework peace plan. Some were killed by police, others were hacked to death by gangs or shot with poisoned arrows. A church was burnt down by youths near the Rift Valley town [...]

Kenyans, fearing new political violence, flee country`s west

10 January, 2008 in Kenya

source: International Herald Tribune NAIROBI: Hundreds of Kenyans fearing new political violence fled the country’s west Wednesday, but the president urged refugees not to abandon their homes and insisted he would hold on to power despite allegations that he had stolen an election. Diplomats worked to end a conflict that has killed more than 500 [...]

A glimmer of hope for Kenya

8 January, 2008 in Kenya

source: The Standard Published on January 8, 2008, 12:00 am By Standard Team The United Kingdom pushed for a repeat presidential election as President Kibaki and Orange Democratic Movement’s Mr Raila Odinga, appeared to edge closer to the dialogue table, on the eve of the arrival of Ghanaian President Mr John Kuffuor. Monday night, Kibaki [...]

Kenyan city is gripped by violence

6 January, 2008 in Kenya

source: International Herald Tribune KISUMU, Kenya: Oginga Odinga Street, the main thoroughfare in town, is a testament to rage. Dozens of stores have been looted, torched and smashed by rioters and then picked clean by an army of glue-sniffing street children searching for whatever was left. The scorched Ukwala supermarket looks as if a bomb [...]

Crisis over election deepens in Kenya

4 January, 2008 in Kenya

source: Harald Tribune By Jeffrey Gettleman Published: January 3, 2008 NAIROBI: Nairobi degenerated into violence Thursday as the riot police used tear gas, batons and water cannons to push back thousands of opposition supporters who poured into the streets to answer a call for a million-person rally that had been banned by the government. Later [...]