African Union boss headed to Kenya for crisis talks
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Young men armed with machetes manned roadblocks in Kenya on Wednesday as world powers stepped up efforts to end a wave of tribal violence over a disputed presidential election that threatens to tear the country apart.
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The UN emergency relief head, John Holmes, is to visit Kenya violence flashpoint areas.
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Kenya suffered fresh violence overnight as the African Union prepared for talks on Wednesday to end post-election turmoil that has killed 500.
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The African Union is brokering peace talks between Sudan&#39;s warring government, rebel armies and regional power-brokers, aiming to head off a mounting humanitarian crisis in the Darfur province.
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African Union chief John Kufuor shuttled between Kenya's president and opposition leader on Wednesday to try to break a political impasse behind post-election turmoil that has killed 500 people.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is due to meet Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday to try to end a post-election crisis after persuading the opposition to call off further street protests.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed Wednesday an African Union initiative to resolve the crisis in Kenya, which he said could lead to a government of national unity in Nairobi.
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African Union leaders condemned the latest unrest in Chad and Kenya Saturday at the close of a summit overshadowed by new crises on the continent and which saw little headway achieved on older ones.
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African Union heads of state Thursday began a three-day summit in Addis Ababa focused on the deadly crisis in Kenya and the challenges facing the body's peacekeeping missions.
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The African Union chairman headed to Kenya on Tuesday to help end turmoil that has killed almost 500 people, but hopes of a swift breakthrough seemed to falter.
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Ex-UN chief Kofi Annan is meeting Kenya's president after rival Raila Odinga agrees to call off mass protests.
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A new flare-up of violence shook Kenya on Friday and fresh political recriminations dulled hopes a breakthrough meeting between the president and opposition leader could resolve a month-long crisis.
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Former U.N. boss Kofi Annan met Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday to try to end a political crisis that has fuelled weeks of bloody unrest.
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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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An African Union mission to resolve a political crisis in Kenya that has killed 500 people ended in failure on Thursday as the president and opposition leader accused each other of wrecking talks.
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African Union leaders gathered in Ethiopia were set Saturday to discuss means of containing the violence in Kenya and Chad during a special meeting on the last day of their summit.
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THE African Union will today bring Sudan&#39;s warring government and rebel armies into talks with regional powerbrokers to try to avert a mounting humanitarian crisis in Darfur province.