Kenya opposition to call off protests: sources
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Kenya's opposition will call off planned protests over the disputed election victory of President Mwai Kibaki at the request of former U.N. chief Kofi Annan, opposition sources said on Wednesday.
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NAIROBI, Jan. 16 -- Three days of planned opposition rallies across Kenya began haltingly Wednesday, with police facing off against relatively small crowds in several cities and chasing opposition leaders with tear gas through the streets of the capital.
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Opposition supporters in Kenya will again try hold a rally in Nairobi, after police stopped Thursday's attempt.
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Opposition protests in Kenya faltered on Friday and the government said it was ready to accept a court-ordered re-run of an election whose disputed result unleashed a wave of violence.
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Kenya's opposition leader demanded Saturday that the president resign and new elections be held, dropping a conciliatory stance that had brought hope for a political settlement to end weeks of postelection violence.
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President Mwai Kibaki said on Saturday he was ready to form a national unity government to end Kenya's bloody turmoil but the opposition brushed the offer aside, saying he must step down and negotiate.
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African Union mediation to end Kenya's  post-election turmoil, in which up to 1,000 people may have  died, could start on Wednesday, opposition leader Raila Odinga  said on Monday.
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Kenya's opposition on Friday called  three days of nationwide protests next week after mediation  failed and the country's post-election crisis worsened.
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Kenyan police used batons and tear gas to break up protests on Wednesday as the opposition defied a ban on rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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Legislators chose an opposition member as parliament speaker in a close vote Tuesday, giving a victory to foes of Kenya's president as they prepared for mass protest rallies that raised fears of new violence over last month's disputed election.
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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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Kenya's government should order police to stop using lethal force against protesters, a U.S.-based rights group said on Sunday as the nation braced for three days of opposition rallies over disputed December 27 polls.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The opposition called Friday for three days of rallies to protest Kenya's disputed presidential election, igniting fears of more deadly violence. Police said they would not allow the demonstrations.
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Kenya's opposition is due to begin three days of mass rallies against the disputed election result.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki said on Saturday he was ready to form a national unity government to end Kenya's bloody turmoil but the opposition brushed the offer aside, saying he must step down and negotiate.
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Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in several Kenyan cities Wednesday, but the East African nation was mostly calm at the start of an opposition call for three days of mass demonstrations over a disputed election
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Opposition street protests over the disputed re-election of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki will end after demonstrations planned for Friday, a spokesman said.