Obama contacts Kenyan leaders
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Between campaign stops in his bid for the White House, Democratic front-runner Barack Obama has been making calls regarding the presidential election and resulting violence in his father's homeland of Kenya.
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NAIROBI, Feb. 1 -- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga agreed Friday on a plan to end weeks of post-election violence that has brought this East African country to the edge of disaster.
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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 little sign the two were ready to meet or compromise.
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Kenya's feuding politicians hold a second day of talks brokered by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan on Thursday and African leaders gather in neighboring Ethiopia for a summit likely to be dominated by the post-election crisis.
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Head of African Union to mediate in talks between President Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga
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Kenya's feuding parties resumed talks on Tuesday after a torrent of calls from home and abroad to solve a post-election crisis that has killed 1,000 people and tarnished the east African nation's reputation.
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The chairman of the African Union is due to arrive in Kenya to try to end the country's political crisis.
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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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Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan brought together Kenya's political rivals on Tuesday in a push to end a post-election crisis and deepening tribal bloodshed.
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Intensifying diplomatic pressure from the United States, Barack Obama phoned the opposition leader 'âto express grave concern over the election outcome.â'
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The leading U.S. diplomat for Africa met with Kenya's president and the head of the opposition on Saturday to encourage a peaceful resolution after the disputed presidential election that sparked days of deadly riots.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga on Sunday as ethnic violence in Rift Valley undermined efforts to mediate a month-long crisis that has killed 750.
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Kenya's opposition said on Tuesday it would only hold talks with President Mwai Kibaki as part of international mediation efforts to end post-election unrest that has killed hundreds of people.
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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.
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Kenya's political foes  discuss crucial political issues to try to end the violence which has claimed more than 1,000 lives.
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Kenya's president and his chief rival held talks Thursday for the first time since last month's disputed election, under international pressure to find a way to share power. But the president angered the opposition by insisting his position as head of state was not negotiable.
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African Union chief John Kufuor met Kenyan leaders on Wednesday to try to break a political deadlock following disputed presidential polls that sparked widespread violence and left at least 600 dead.