Kenya vows tougher action to stop killings
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Kenya on Wednesday pledged tougher action to rein in post-election violence that threatens to spiral out of control, in the east African nation's darkest moment since independence in 1963.
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Kenyans pleaded on Wednesday for an end to violence that has killed 850 people and created unprecedented horror in the east African nation's darkest moment since 1963 independence.
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Kenya's warring political parties have been urged to acknowledge irregularities in the disputed presidential election, with the death toll from the subsequent violence now having risen to a reported 486.
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More than 20 people die in fresh violence in western Kenya, despite a peace deal to end the bloodshed.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon says Palestinians must take tougher measures against militants to advance peace hopes.
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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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Kenyaâs president is ready to form âa government of national unityâ to help resolve disputed elections that caused deadly riots, a government statement said.
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Clashes between rival tribes armed with machetes and bows and arrows on Friday marked the third, the bloodiest and what the government hopes is the last day of opposition protests over Kenya's disputed presidential election.
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Kenya's opposition vowed to defy police for a second day running on Friday and try to hold a mass rally in the capital while the top U.S. diplomat for Africa was flying in amid chaos that has killed more than 300.
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Kenya's feuding political leaders agreed Thursday to an immediate cessation of violence and any acts that may harm efforts to end the country's post-election crisis, according to a statement from the Ghanaian presidency, head of the African Union.
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Diplomatic pressure mounts on Kenya's leaders to end violence over the country's disputed presidential election.
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Kenya's opposition said on Saturday it would resume protests next week over a disputed election, and five people were killed in politically-fuelled ethnic violence in the country's Great Rift Valley.
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President Thabo Mbeki is set to respond to growing public unrest by acknowledging his government needs to do more to tackle South Africa's rampant crime rate in his state of the union address.
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The European Union and the United Nations urged Kenya's feuding politicians on Saturday to agree a peaceful, democratic end to a violent political crisis that has killed 500 people since a disputed December 27 election.
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Washington's top diplomat for Africa hopes to meet both sides in Kenya's political crisis on Saturday to seek an end to ethnic unrest that has killed more than 300 and shattered the country's peaceful image.
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Western diplomats have been putting pressure on the Kenyan government and opposition to bring an end to bloodletting that has killed more than 300 people in the past three days.
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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.