What’s Next for Kenya?
Kisii Warriors in Chepilat on Tuesday. © Anne Holmes Standing by. That’s what I’m doing these days. The negotiations with Annan have helped to quiet things down a bit in […]
View ArticleTensions Return
A mob in Mathare North attacks a man they accuse of being Mungiki. © Anne Holmes An overnight raid by police sparked a minor violent scene in Mathare North this […]
View ArticleThree Consecutive Nights of Raids in the Slums and More Reasons for Concern
Residents of Huruma gather around the body of a man shot dead by police in a late-night confrontation. © Anne Holmes The Nation published an article yesterday about the police […]
View ArticleConstitutional Crisis in Kenya
By Prof. Alberto Bencivenga (http://www.ogiek.org) Whoever reads Mr. S. N. Waruhiu’s book “From Autocracy to Democracy in Kenya” will be impressed by the amount of information and by the clarity […]
View ArticleNegotiating Talks Break Down
Internally displaced persons at a camp just outside Nairobi’s slum of Mathare © Anne Holmes Chief mediator Kofi Annan announced today that he was suspending talks in order to deal […]
View ArticlePower Sharing Deal Struck
Supporters of ODM cheering outside Harambe house were dispersed with tear gas this afternoon as President Mwai Kibaki and Hon. Raila Odinga signed a power sharing deal. The deal struck […]
View ArticleALERT: US Bombs Kenya Somali Border
REPORT: One AC-130 bomber flew over the Somali-Kenyan border yesterday Sunday March 2, 2008, in an airstrike upon the Somali town of Dhoble, killing 6 and injuring 20 according to […]
View ArticleALERT: Demos Rock Downtown Nairobi
A large mob of several hundred people poured into the streets of downtown Nairobi today in support of jailed mungiki leader Maina Njenga. Clashes with police ensued. UPDATE: Several hundred […]
View ArticleUS Foreign Policy and the Kenya Peace Deal
by Anne Holmes Before Kofi Annan enters the history books with merits on a job well done in Kenya, before you buy into the propaganda of American goodwill in this […]
View ArticleTensions Rise in Kenya
Stalled negotiations over the naming of cabinet ministers by Prime Minister Designate Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki under the power-sharing deal struck in late February of this year, has […]
View ArticlePulling the Railway Line
A young man hacks at bolts holding the railway line together in Kibera slums. © Anne Holmes Residents of Nairobi’s Kibera slum continued to pull up the railway line late […]
View ArticleKenya Rocked by Mungiki Surprise Attacks
The cities of Nairobi, Nakuru, Naivasha, Nyieri and Eldoret were all affected by yesterday’s Mungiki demonstrations. A day after President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga named the cabinet […]
View ArticleNew Multimedia Slideshow
For those of you who have been keeping up with my regular posts, thanks for stopping in. I will be taking a break from my reporting on Kenya and shall […]
View ArticleBurning the Master’s House
by Onyango Oketch Now let the blame game begin. Schools in Kenya are going up in flames, together with the ideologies they espouse. We might say nothing new in these. […]
View ArticleKibera Then and Now
KIBERA, Kenya (ILO Online) – Deep within the labyrinth of this bustling informal settlement’s infinite network of footpaths, a young man tends to rows of plants in a small community […]
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