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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The total death toll from post-election violence in Kenya has reached 486, more than 100 higher than previous estimates, according to a government committee cited on local media.
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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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About 3,000 villagers kill at least 10 people, including a policeman, in fresh violence in western Kenya, police say.
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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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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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The Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers say that fighting on Thursday has left more than 30 dead.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki said on Saturday he was ready to form a government of national unity to end post-election violence that has killed 300 people and forced 250,000 to flee their homes.
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Government troops have been responsible for the worst atrocities of a simmering conflict in Central African Republic, burning down villages, executing civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, a human rights group said Friday.
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As death toll nears 1,000, more Kenyans are saying 'holy' president and his elite advisers are to blame
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Up to 1,000 people may have died in more than a week of riots and post-election violence in Kenya, opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Monday.
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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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Dozens of protesters set fire to a government office building Wednesday in a melee following a memorial service organized by the opposition for victims of Kenya's election violence. Workers crawled to safety from a window in the smoking building, just as former U.N. chief Kofi Annan was due to start a mediation mission here.
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A planned opposition rally faltered on Friday, giving Kenya some respite from post-election turmoil that has killed more than 300 people and threatened one of Africa's strongest economies.
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Phillipines officials say the death toll from landslides and floods unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines has exceeded 300.
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga vowed to defy police and hold a million-strong rally on Thursday against Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, which has sparked violence that has killed more than 300 people.
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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.