Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Kenya,....
Kenyan police walk past a burning makeshift roadblock made by opposition supporters in the center of Eldoret, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Police Thursday dispersed dozens-strong mobs on the streets of the western towns of Kisumu and Eldoret and fired tear gas at the gate of the city's main hospital and beat others who had been standing outside it with clubs, including a doctor. Ten people were injured. It was unclear why the hospital had been targeted.
A mother and her two daughters react after police fired tear gas in between houses in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Machete-wielding young slum dwellers in Nairobi skirmished with riot police on a second day of opposition protests Thursday, but demonstrations across the edgy East African nation appeared to be losing steam amid a harsh police crackdown.
A man on crutches walk past the body of a man killed during ethnic fighting in the Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008. Renewed ethnic fighting broke out in Nairobi's Mathare slum Sunday, where several homes were set ablaze during several hours of running battles between Kikuyu and Luo ethnic groups.
Kenyan Opposition supporters carry a fellow supporter after he was shot, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008, during clashes between the police and opposition supporters in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. With days of protests failing to budge Kenya's president, Mwai Kibaki, a weakened opposition said Friday it would turn to economic boycotts and strikes to keep up pressure over disputed elections.
Kenyan men from the Luo tribe enforce a makeshift roadblock, searching buses for Kikuyus trying to flee the town in order to kill them, on the main road to the Ugandan border near the airport in Kisumu, Kenya, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. In Kisumu on Monday angry young men blocked roads out of the town, set some houses and buses ablaze, and one driver was burned alive in his minibus, according to a witness.
Opposition supporters taunt police, during riots in the Mathare slum, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008, Nairobi, Kenya. Machete-wielding young slum dwellers in Nairobi hurled stones at police who fired tear gas and gunshots on a second day of opposition protests Thursday. Across most of the East African nation, demonstrations appeared to be losing steam.
Kenyan police officers react as opposition supporters throw stones at them during ethnic fighting in the Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008. Renewed ethnic fighting broke out in Nairobi's Mathare slum Sunday, where several homes were set blaze during several hours of running battles between Kikuyu and Luo ethnic groups.
Residents look at the body of a man killed during overnight ethnic fighting in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. An opposition plan to boycott companies linked to President Mwai Kibaki's allies is "illegal sabotage," the government said Monday as weeks of violence since Kibaki's disputed re-election continued.
Police and residents move the body of a man killed during overnight ethnic fighting in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. An opposition plan to boycott companies linked to President Mwai Kibaki's allies is illegal sabotage, the government said Monday as the violence triggered by Kibaki's disputed re-election more than three weeks ago continued.
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