Kenya's police are struggling to restore order as ethnic-gangs are rampaging across parts of the capital, Nairobi, Rift Valley and western Kenya attacking members of rival-communities.
The violence began following last month's disputed presidential-election but now has descended into a vicious-cycle of revenge attacks, leaving scores dead.
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Protests across Kenya against Mwai-Kibaki, the Kenyan president, have seen over 20-people lose their lives. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from Nairobi on the third-day of opposition-backed demonstrations.
Opposition Orange Democratic Movement supporters in Kenya began three-days of protest at the allegedly rigged presidential-elections in December.
Via BBC
The controversial re-election campaign of Mwai Kibaki, the Kenyan president, was masterminded by an Old-Etonian public relations consultant, who previously promoted Bob Geldof's Live8 campaign.
Marcus Courage oversaw the communications team for Kibaki, whose government faces possible European Union sanctions for alleged vote-rigging.
Courage's role has angered the opposition, who accuse him of spreading defamatory-pamphlets of their candidate, Raila Odinga.
"He has played up the ethnic-differences in this country," said Ahmed Hashi, Odinga's communications director. Mombasa has been rocked by violence as bands of opposition supporters fight running battles with police in protest.
Via Sunday-Times
Uhuru Park was filled with Kenyans curious to hear what Archbishop Desmond-Tutu would have to say. The Nobel peace laureate hoped he might be able to use his influence to curb the violence.
At the start of his visit here, he recalled violence before the ground-breaking elections in South Africa in 1994. "We have been there and we know how bad our sisters and brothers in Kenya are feeling," he said.
Uhuru - or Freedom - Park has been much in the news this week as the place where supporters of Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga wanted to demonstrate that they consider him to be the winner of the disputed-election.
Via BBC
Aid agencies today warned of a humanitarian disaster in Kenya amid claims of "ethnic-cleansing".
Red Cross officials visiting the Moi University hospital, in Eldoret, reported seeing people who had suffered gunshot and arrow wounds. "The hospital is overwhelmed with the number of casualties," Gullet said.
Abbas Gullet, the secretary general of the Kenya Red Cross, described the situation as "national disaster,".
"One tribe is targeting another one in a fashion that can rightly be described as ethnic cleansing," an unnamed senior police official told the AFP news-agency.
Via Guardian-Unlimited
