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POLITICS-KENYA: Writing For Peace
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - Since January, a group of politically-conscious poets, writers and storytellers in Kenya has been writing an alternative account of the violence that shook Kenya during the first two months of the year. Their work is now part of the evidence before the Waki Commission inquiring into post-election violence in Kenya.
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RIGHTS-KENYA: Commission To Challenge Silence on Sexual Crimes
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - No sooner did Kenya's Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence begin public hearings last week than it was overwhelmed by the enormity of the task at hand.
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RIGHTS-KENYA: Doubly Displaced
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - The Kenyan government says Operation Rudi Nyumbani -- Return Home in Kiswahili -- is almost complete; most of the camps for internally displaced people are closed and the remaining IDPs will be resettled within a week or two. But the hastily implemented programme is being called into question by Kenya's civil society and human rights activists.
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Q&A: "But They Never Killed My Spirit"
Interview with Flora Igoki Terah
NAIROBI - On Sep. 7 last year, as she walked to her home, parliamentary candidate Flora Igoki Terah was attacked and tortured by a gang of five men. Terah's case is one of several case studies highlighted in Amnesty International's 2008 report on the state of the world's human rights, released on May 28.
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RIGHTS-KENYA: Home Is Where the Fear Is
By Kwamboka Oyaro
NAIROBI - The Kenyan government has begun transporting certain internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the camps they have occupied for the last four months back to their homes. The IDPs have been assured of support by government once back on their farms.
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POLITICS-KENYA: Big Cabinet, Bigger Challenges
By Kwamboka Oyaro
NAIROBI - The oaths of office have been taken, and solemn pronouncements made about the ills that have dogged Kenya's past, and the way to address these in the future. Now, can the East African country's vast new coalition government move from talking the talk to walking the walk?
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Q&A: "As a Woman Politician in Kenya, You Need to Think Out of the Box"
Interview with Esther Murugi Mathenge
CAPE TOWN - A coalition cabinet for Kenya was sworn in Thursday amidst mingled relief and exasperation on the part of those living in the East African nation: relief at the possibility of Kenya now being able to rebuild in earnest after post-election violence, and exasperation at the price tag attached to this hope.
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Q&A: "I Will Give the Big Boys a Run For Their Money"
Interview with Nazlin Umar
NAIROBI - She's made her mark in the history books by becoming one of only three women to contest the presidency in Kenya; but, Nazlin Umar won't be taking up residence in State House, at least not during the current political term.
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Q&A: "I Don't Consider Myself a Loser in Any Way"
Interview with Pamela Mburia
NAIROBI - In the run-up to Kenya's Dec. 27 general elections, IPS touched base with legislative candidate Pamela Mburia on several occasions to discuss the challenges she was facing in her campaign. Ultimately, Mburia did not win the Eastern Province seat of Nithi that she contested, so this week we decided to join her again to look back on lessons learned.
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KENYA: Education Amidst Displacement
By Kwamboka Oyaro
KITALE and ELDORET, Kenya - With the new academic year in Kenya underway, teacher Moses Simiyu Kalenda is once again instructing children -- just not in the place where he expected to be doing so.
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POLITICS-KENYA: From Suspension of Talks to Fragile Success
By Kwamboka Oyaro
NAIROBI - The signing of a power-sharing agreement to end the political crisis in Kenya has elicited a variety of reactions.
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RIGHTS: U.N. Inaction Threatens "Mass Killings" in Africa, Asia
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The international failure to respond aggressively to the killings in Sudan, and more recently in Kenya, is threatening the spread of genocide and ethnic cleansing in other parts of Africa, a London-based human rights organisation warns.
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POLITICS-KENYA: "It Will Not Be Machetes and Arrows Any More, But Firearms"
By Kwamboka Oyaro
NAIROBI - Political analyst Kwamchetsi Makhokha has warned that failure of talks to address Kenya's political crisis could prove explosive. The East African country is trying to resolve a disputed presidential election that has already cost more than 1,000 lives -- and displaced up to 600,000 people.
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