Kenya braces for tough week
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Kenya's feuding parties prepared on Monday for fresh fighting in parliament and on the streets despite another international push to mediate a post-election crisis that has now killed at least 612 people.
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The government tightened security around Kenya's parliament Tuesday for its first session since a disputed presidential election, a fight that has provoked deadly violence and was expected to carry over to the selection of a house speaker.
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Kenya's opposition hopeful held his lead over President Mwai Kibaki in two final opinion polls released on Thursday a week before an election some fear could provoke trouble in one of Africa's most mature democracies.
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Kenya's opposition party called Friday for a rerun of the country's disputed election, as political deadlock between the president and his chief rival ground on after a week of spiraling violence
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Ghanaian President John Kufuor is to visit Kenya next week in an attempt to break the country's political deadlock and end its explosion of ethnic violence, his foreign minister said on Saturday.
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After a wave of ethnic violence, Kenya has been in the process of segregating itself.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 8 (IPS) - One of the most horrific incidents that followed  Kenya's disputed presidential election was the burning to  death of 30 people taking refuge in a church in Eldoret.
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OTHAYA, Kenya  - With a political career as old as his nation, President Mwai Kibaki faces a verdict on his progress leading east Africa's biggest economy and efforts to fix years of corruption at his final election battle this month.
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Kenya's opposition threatened on Wednesday to resume street protests if talks led by Kofi Annan to resolve a post-election crisis fail to produce concrete results within a week.
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In Kenya, elections mean money. From cash to T-shirts to new roads, and the lucrative business of helping aspirants by fair means or foul, Christmas has come early in the east African nation.
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Kenyans faced more turmoil on Friday after both sides in the country's deadly political crisis accused each other of trying to sink mediation efforts.
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The State Department issued a reminder Monday that ongoing terrorist threats in Kenya present a safety and security risk for American citizens in the area.
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Foreign mediators raised the pressure on Kenya's president and opposition leader on Thursday to end post-electoral turmoil that has killed 500 people, but there was little sign the two were ready to meet or compromise.
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Elections in the next few weeks  will bring new faces and new hope to a clutch of African  countries, but many of the poor, war-damaged continent's  nascent democracies face major hurdles in the coming year.
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Bodies and debris lay in Kenyan streets on Tuesday as Western powers exerted pressure on President Mwai Kibaki to investigate his disputed re-election that has triggered days of riots killing around 150 people.
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Kenya's opposition on Wednesday threatened mass protests within a week unless the government begins the process of changing the constitution.
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.