Kenya govt denounces "genocide" as toll hits 300
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President Mwai Kibaki's government accused rival Raila Odinga's party of unleashing "genocide" in Kenya on Wednesday as the death toll from tribal violence over a disputed election passed 300.
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Congolese forces used excessive force in  fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which  around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United  Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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The Guardian's Xan Rice reports from the scene of a church massacre in Eldoret, Kenya
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At least 35 children and adults sheltering in a church were burnt alive by an angry mob in Kenya Tuesday, as an eruption of election violence threatened to tip over into a full-scale tribal conflict.
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Kenyan opposition officials were behind attacks on the president's ethnic group, a rights group says.
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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 while the top U.S. diplomat for Africa was flying in amid turmoil in which more than 300 people have been killed.
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Kenyans faced a third day of opposition protests on Friday as the death toll mounted from rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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Kenya's opposition leader vowed to go ahead with a "million man" protest rally Thursday that many fear could worsen a wave of political and ethnic violence which humanitarian groups say has already killed 300 people and displaced 100,000.
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President Mwai Kibaki's government accused rival Raila Odinga's backers on Wednesday of responsibility for an explosion of tribal violence over a disputed election that has killed more than 300 Kenyans.
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Under U.S. pressure, Kenya's president and his chief rival agreed to talks and made other concessions to end their deadly election dispute. The opposition, meanwhile, claimed violence, much of it fueled by tribal rivalries, has killed up to 1,000 people, but the government put the toll at nearly 500.
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Government accepts new estimate on death toll that includes civilian deaths up to June 2006
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Riots and post-election violence in Kenya may have killed up to 1,000 people, the opposition said on Monday as it halted protests and President Mwai Kibaki invited his main rival to talks.
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Kenya's government should declare a national crisis over an escalation in crime, violent clashes and police shootings that have killed 300 people this year, a rights group said on Friday.
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Kenya's president angrily attacks those responsible for a spate of murders blamed on the banned Mungiki sect.
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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 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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Nationwide violence since a disputed presidential poll may have cost the Kenyan economy close to a billion dollars, the finance ministry said Tuesday.