Kenya 2008

David Lewis has reported for Reuters from Africa since 2004, originally as correspondent in the Democratic Republic of Congo and as a freelance journalist since 2007. Born in Kenya but British by nationality, he grew up in several African countries and has worked as a journalist in Africa since 2001. In the following story he recounts his experiences traveling around Kenya's Rift Valley during …

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By TOM MALITI

Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's opposition leader unexpectedly left the country Friday, the day government negotiators and their rivals had promised to sign a power-sharing deal to end the postelection crisis that has sparked weeks of deadly violence

Raila Odinga left Kenya on a charter flight to Nigeria, according to an airport employee and two …

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US: Kibaki and Raila should share power

Story by LUCAS BARASA
Publication Date: 2/18/2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked Kenya’s President Kibaki and his rival Raila Odinga to speedily agree to a power-sharing arrangement under a grand coalition to restore the country’s stability.
The top US diplomat said last year’s General Election results did not reflect the will of …

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By Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers
Tue Feb 12, 6:00 AM ET



KINOO, Kenya — In the six weeks that intertribal fighting has ripped through Kenya , Josphat Karanja hasn't once called his father, not even after clashes erupted near the family home in the turbulent Rift Valley .


"I know what he's going to say," said Karanja, a 30-year-old computer systems manager. …

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Today in the morning legislator James orengo escaped death by a whisker.More info to come soon.Is this the work of Mungiki or ODM ????what you guys think??/

guys have you read this stroy on Eastandard,I can sense Jimmy is hiding something ,Read and you will know what I'm talking about.
President Kibaki’s son, Jimmy, has dismissed claims that he was shot by his mother, Lucy.

Speaking for the first time since the swearing-in of his father, Jimmy said he was in "robust health" and that nobody had shot him.

Jimmy denied the rumour three …

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And why do Kenya's other tribes resent them so much?
By Michela Wrong
Posted Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, at 12:11 PM ET
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CENTRAL PROVINCE, Kenya—On the hillsides, tea is still being picked; in the valleys, women still weed rows of beans, feet stained ocher by the soil; and in downtown Nyeri, the matatu taxi vans …

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