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Former UN chief Kofi Annan, the chief mediator in Kenya's post-election violence, said Tuesday the east African nation's leaders had recently made progress in furthering the reform process. Speaking after meeting with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who both claimed victory in the 2007 polls and eventually agreed to share power after weeks of bloodshed, Annan spoke of "fresh momentum" and "clear signs of progress". He cited the publication of a new draft constitution, moves pushing a crucial land reform as well as willingness to reform the police and cooperate with the International Criminal Court in its efforts to bring the ... Read Full Story

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan urged Kenya Monday to accelerate efforts to improve living conditions in Nairobi's squalid slums, which experts say could pose a threat to stability and national security. Annan chaired weeks of talks last year that gave birth to the country's coalition government and ended post-election violence in east Africa's biggest economy that killed at least 1,300 people and drove another 300,000 from their homes. The capital's fetid shantytowns became ethnic battlegrounds during the crisis, and aid workers say the slums -- with their huge numbers of marginalized youths -- are "ticking time bombs" ahead of the country's ... Read Full Story

Since Kenya suffered its bloodiest unrest since independence sparked by a disputed poll last year, bids to soothe ethnic tensions in the Rift Valley region have run into distrust and suspicion. This region in western Kenya witnessed some of the worst violence after President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner of the December 2007 elections and opposition leader Raila Odinga accused him of stealing his victory. What began as post-vote protests in the capital Nairobi, several towns in western Kenya and the coastal town of Mombasa quickly degenerated into ethnically-driven revenge killings that left around 1,500 people dead in weeks. The dispute tapped into long-running ... Read Full Story

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's post-election crisis mediator Kofi Annan said on Thursday he had handed a sealed envelope with the names of top suspects for the violence to the International Criminal Court's prosecutor. The move heightens pressure on Kenya's shaky coalition government to establish quickly a local court or face international justice for the worst bloodletting in the east African nation's post-independence history. "Justice delayed is justice denied," Annan said. Punishing culprits is a crucial step to ensuring stability in the nation of 35 million that is the region's economic powerhouse and faces its next poll in 2012, analysts say. "The people of Kenya ... Read Full Story

Obama And Machete Politics Sen. Barack Obama’s Strange Friendship With His Cousin Raila Odinga, The Marxist Kenyan Prime Minister SHARE THIS WITH A FRIEND! Donate to TVC October 27, 2008 – Sen. Barack Obama campaigned on Marxist Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s behalf in Kenya in 2006 and, with the help of the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, raised nearly $1 million for Odinga’s campaign. When Odinga lost his presidential election, he refused to accept the results and incited riots resulting in thousands being macheted to death or burned alive in their churches.   A video shows Obama with Odinga at an HIV ... Read Full Story