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| Kenya Factions in AU-Mediated Talks |
| 2008-01-10 |
| Media reports from the western town of Kisumu say that hundreds of people belonging to the Kamba tribe are fleeing the area, terrified militiamen who support the opposition party of Raila Odinga will kill them. The opposition accuses incumbent President Mwai Kibaki of stealing the December 27 presidential vote and is demanding fresh elections. The vote took place peacefully, but was subsequently marred by irregularities in the vote counting process. In Kisumu, a stronghold of Mr. Odinga's Luo tribe, ethnic Kambas are reportedly being targeted, because one of the defeated presidential candidates, ethnic Kamba politician Kalonzo Musyoka, dropped his neutrality in the post-election dispute by accepting the position of vice-president in Mr. Kibaki's government. More than a week of rioting and ethnic clashes has killed hundreds of people throughout the country and more than 250,000 Kenyans have been uprooted. Residents of the western Rift Valley town of Eldoret tell VOA that thousands of ethnic Kikuyus there, who up until two weeks ago had lived peacefully with neighbors belonging to other tribes, have all left, mostly for the central highlands, the traditional homeland of the Kikuyus. |
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