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Kenya In Turmoil.
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey replied on Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 8:13am |
 Coolness: 102810 | Kenya, the jewel of East Africa, just had their election, and the results are disputed. There has been an increase of violence among the tribes and ethnic groups.
article: [ news.bbc.co.uk ] 
-------------------------NSFW 'Thirteen charred bodies, you can't see who they are, but they're all children' Kenya reaches breaking point as dozens of people burned to death amid violence and unrest following election Podcast: [ blogs.guardian.co.uk ] Video: [ www.guardian.co.uk ] Update » Trey wrote on Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 8:25am The really long article that explain what happen.
Kenya's unsound election THE electoral commission of Kenya declared a winner in the country's bitterly fought presidential election on Sunday December 30th: the sitting president, Mwai Kibaki, was returned to power. The voting three days earlier had been impressively orderly and peaceful, raising hopes of a brighter future for Kenyan democracy. But the tallying process was a much darker story, with heavy suspicion of vote rigging and subsequent fears that serious violence could strike the country. No one disputes that the opposition Orange Democratic Movement swept aside government parties in the parliamentary vote. Most of the ministers in the cabinet of Mr Kibaki lost their seats to Oranges, including the vice-president, foreign minister, and defence minister, and a number of previously unassailable and wealthy MPs. And yet the same disgruntled voters apparently gave 76-year-old Mr Kibaki strong support in the presidential vote. The final tally, according to the electoral commission, handed Mr Kibaki 4.58m voters to 4.35m for the firebrand opposition candidate, Raila Odinga. Mr Odinga's supporters had earlier stated that he had won, suggesting a lead of some 500,000 votes. He claimed that the electoral commission was “being forced to declare wrong results” and called on its leaders to resign rather than plunge the country into chaos. The consequence of failing to recognise a “fair result”, he threatened, could be civil war. Polls had indicated that the presidential election was going to be close. It was the manner in which Mr Kibaki crept up on Mr Odinga's solid lead that raised suspicions. Why, for instance, were votes from the president's loyal Kikuyu highlands of central Kenya held back to the end of the counting? Why had so many returning officers there gone missing, along with their results? Mr Kibaki, himself a Kikuyu, was expected to have overwhelming support from his kinsmen, but 98% looked excessive. The head of a European Union team of observers, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, promptly spoke about deep misgivings concerning the counting process. Diplomats in Nairobi, the capital, pointed the finger at the Kikuyu old guard, men who had feared that they would lose their fortunes if Mr Odinga had made it into State House. Even if Mr Kibaki's cronies are innocent of charges of vote rigging, he will have no national mandate: outside of the Kikuyu lands, Mr Kibaki was soundly beaten across the country, including in Nairobi. There is a real chance of bloodletting between the Kikuyu, an ethnic group that has dominated politics and business in the decades since independence, and the Luo, led by Mr Odinga, who have been politically and economically marginalised. The fear now is that violence could erupt on a large scale in Luo strongholds in Nairobi and across western Kenya. There are plenty of younger Kenyans, including those in business, who are desperate to avoid tribal polarisation. The immediate concern is whether Kenya's security forces can hold the line between rioters from opposing sides, most of them unemployed men armed with machetes and clubs, screaming death threats. Sporadic violence killed several people on Saturday. Looters stripped out shops in the western city of Kisumu. Mr Kibaki, who was immediately sworn in as president on Sunday, retakes office in the least auspicious of circumstances. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 11:11am |
 Coolness: 685635 | but how will this affect my favorite coffee? |
| I'm feeling like a waste of air right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey replied on Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 8:48pm |
| Coolness: 102810 | Your coffee might taste a bit like sweet charred children and a small bitter after taste of failed promises of a burning church.
The 2k7 crops are safe i think...but if the violence escalated into war then it doesn't look too good. [ www.sweetmarias.com ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 10:24pm |
| Coolness: 685635 | Wow, welcome to flavour country! |
| I'm feeling like a waste of air right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Wizdumb replied on Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 1:48am |
 Coolness: 122355 | the bitter taste of false promises gets me through my day |
| I'm feeling battery operated right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Sun Jan 6, 2008 @ 10:49pm |
 Coolness: 509605 | Kenya's a drama queen. |
| I'm feeling energized right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 12:47am |
 Coolness: 192720 | Originally Posted By TREY
Your coffee might taste a bit like sweet charred children and a small bitter after taste of failed promises of a burning church. Damn where can buy this coffee?!! |
| I'm feeling optimistic right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 10:02am |
 Coolness: 178690 | do they serve tea too? I don't like coffee... |
| I'm feeling solstice right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 10:53am |
 Coolness: 92310 | The tea tastes like sunlight on a foggy horizon with a dash of wilted wildflower bending hopelessly to the blood hardened soil. |
| I'm feeling bored right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 1:59pm |
| Coolness: 178690 | well that might be interesting.
Oh, you forgot: with a dash of wilted wildflowers that are rooted on human bones. more calcium, see... (erm, more seriously, Africa should move on with civil wars... They're everywhere...) |
| I'm feeling solstice right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Sun Jan 13, 2008 @ 2:20am |
 Coolness: 93540 | Development before democracy. When will people learn |
| I'm feeling im blah right now.. | |
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