Kenyan rivals unyielding amid bloodshed
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As Kenyans die in their hundreds in gritty city slums and rolling cornfields in the countryside, their fate rests with two men who appear more intent on the struggle for power than on the turmoil it has set off.
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Kenya's presidential rivals were  neck-and-neck on Saturday with nearly 90 percent of official  results counted and accusations of rigging that ignited ethnic  violence across the east African nation.
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Kenya's feuding parties have moderated their positions at talks on President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election and hope to reach a deal within days to end a crisis that has killed more than 1,000 people.
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Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan brought Kenya's rival sides together again on Monday after a weekend of clashes cast a pall over a skeleton deal meant to stop a month of post-election bloodshed.
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For the first time since Kenya exploded into election-related violence that killed more than 400 people, the president and the top opposition leader have agreed to meet.
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Kenya's opposition challenger Raila Odinga led on Saturday in the race to govern east Africa's largest economy but tempers flared over the slow pace of vote tallying in the incumbent's strongholds.
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Kenyan police and opposition backers clashed on Thursday in a second day of protests against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election in which police have already killed three.
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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 no sign of an immediate deal to end the crisis.
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President Mwai Kibaki tried to fend off a fiery opposition leader Thursday in an election that was shaping up to be the closest in this East African country's history.
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Seven killed in new Kenya clashes despite meeting between rival leaders
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Kenya's opposition vowed to pour thousands of demonstrators on to the streets on Thursday after both sides traded accusations of genocide in post-election turmoil that has killed more than 300.
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Kenya's political rivals accused each other on Thursday of sabotaging international mediation efforts to end weeks of unrest, despite a symbolic handshake after talks brokered by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan.
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NAKURU, Kenya -- Street battles engulfed a western Kenyan city tense with ethnic rivalries on Friday, leaving bodies in the roadways with gashes in their heads and arrows lodged in their torsos in the latest fighting set off by the disputed presidential election.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki offered to talk to political rivals on Thursday as corpses lay in the street and smoke rose from burning slums after a day of battles between police and anti-government protesters.
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Some of the world's most prominent diplomats are in Kenya trying to prevent an all-out ethnic war from plunging east Africa's most important economy into chaos
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Kenyans voted on Thursday in presidential and parliamentary polls preceded by violence and soured by delays and charges from the main opposition challenger that the government was plotting to rig the result.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki appealed for calm and offered to talk to political rivals on Thursday after another day of battles between police and protesters disputing his re-election.