Kenya in Crisis After Contested Elections

A Kenyan man leads his children away from his neighborhood as he flees violence during disturbances in the streets of the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tony Karumba, AFP/Getty Images

Talk About It:
New York Times: Kenyan Riot Police Turn Back Rallying Protesters -- "It has been a week since Kenyans went to the polls in the most contested elections in the country's history. Kenya's president, Mwai Kibaki, was narrowly declared the winner but opposition supporters and Western observers said the president's party rigged some of the results. The anger over that has exploded across the country and incited violent protests, hooliganism and clashes between members of the president's tribe, the Kikuyu, and other tribes who support the opposition, which is most of the 40 some tribes in the country."

Related: Chronology of Events

Several blogs are offering firsthand accounts of the unrest:
Kenya Pundit | Kenya Imagine | Thinker's Room | Insight Kenya

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Geoffrey Bennett

Tags: Election 2008 | Kenya

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