Kenya, The Kenyan Election Crisis
January 2008
The disputed Kenyan elections of December 27th, 2007 sparked a wave of ethnic violence throughout the country. People living in the west of the country were worst affected and sporadic acts of violence continued on a daily basis throughout January and February, despite international mediation attempts led by Kofi Annan. An estimated 1500 people were killed and over 700,000 displaced.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki of the PNU party was formally declared the winner, but supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga and his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) argued that the count was rigged.
A power sharing deal was finally agreed to between the two parties on February 28th, 2008.
Left: A man tries to put out a fire that was started when a group of youths, suspected to be Kalinjens, set alight to several buildings in a village that was built on Kalinjen land, near Molo Western Kenya
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A man stands in front of his burning house, holding a panga, after a group of men, suspected to be Kalinjens, burnt down a village and killed several people near Molo, Kenya.
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A man is led away by a policeman after he was badly beaten by men on the side of the road in Nakuru after a day of intense rioting between people from the Kalinjen and Kikuyu tribes.
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Young men from the Luo tribe wait on the railway line in Kibera slum, Nairobi, following clashes between themselves and the Kikuyu tribe that morning
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A policeman shouts orders upon arrival at a house that has been torched by Kalinjen men in small village near Nakuru, Kenya.
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Two men from the Luo tribe, try to put out a fire that was started when a group of youths, suspected to be Kalinjens, set alight to several buildings in their village that was built on Kalinjen land, near Molo Western Kenya.
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A man stands by the remains of his burnt out home after intense rioting raged through Nakuru town between the Kikuyu and Kalinjen tribes.
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A Kikuyu man, who has died, lies in a bed next to a Kalinjen man who is still alive, after a day of intense rioting throughout Nakuru town between the Kikuyu and Kalinjen tribes.
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The burnt out shell of a car, belonging to a government minister, blocks a road in Kisumu in a series of roadblocks that were set up by opposition supporters in response to the shooting of the second ODM opposition MP in 48 hours.
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A woman surveys her home that was torched in the early hours of the morning, in the Langas area of Eldoret, Western Kenya.
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People flee their homes after a day of intense rioting between the Kalinjen and Kikuyu tribes in Nakuru.
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An armed policeman patrols a deserted market in Nakuru town after a day of intense rioting between the Kalinjen and Kikuyu tribes.
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A woman and her child walk through piles of furniture belonging to people who have sought shelter in a church in Nakuru, Western Kenya, after a day of intense rioting between the Kikuyu and Kalinjen tribes.
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January 2008
A man waves a stick at women who are queuing for food at a food distribution point in Kisumu, Western Kenya.
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A man from the Ogiek tribe stands in his homes doorway protecting his family with a bow and arrows after the forest they live in was set alight in a suspected arson attack by members of the Kalinjen tribe in Mariashoni, Western Kenya.
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Women carry away their food ration at a food distribution point in Kisumu, Western Kenya, that is being guarded by armed wardens from the Kenyan Wildlife Service.
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A young warrior patrols a burnt out building with his bow and arrow in the town of Chebilat in the West of Kenya, where clashes between Kissii and Kalinjen tribes occurred.
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A man lies in the male ward of Nakuru hospital after being hit on the head with a machete after a day of intense rioting throughout Nakuru town between the Kikuyu and Kalinjen tribes.
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January 2008
Joshua, cries uncontrollably over the body of his friend, Godfrey Odhiambo, aged 12, who died from a gunshot wound to the head when police were chasing opposition supporters in Kisumu, Kenya.
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Joshua, cries uncontrollably over the body of his friend, Godfrey Odhiambo, aged 12, who died from a gunshot wound to the head when police were chasing opposition supporters in Kisumu, Kenya.
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Kenyan police officers unload 16 badly charred bodies from the back of a truck at the City Mortuary in Nakuru town, after a day of intense rioting between the Kalinjen and Kikuyu tribes.
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Josephine Odhando, a teacher at an orphanage that was funded by murdered ODM opposition MP Mugabe Were, grieves uncontrollably at his funeral at his families home in Budalangi, Western Kenya.
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Clare Chabay, a teacher at an orphanage that was funded by murdered ODM opposition MP Mugabe Were, grieves uncontrollably at his funeral at his families home in Budalangi, Western Kenya.
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Raila Odinga, leader of Kenya's ODM opposition movement, bids farewell to ODM MP Mugabe Were who was shot and killed in Nairobi, at his families home in Budalangi, Western Kenya.
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A priest holds the headstone, while a grave digger shovels earth over the coffin of former ODM MP David Kimutai Too, at his families home in Ainamoi, Western Kenya after he was shot dead in an incident outside his home in Nairobi.
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A solider washes his hands after unloading dead bodies at the City mortuary in Nakuru following several days of inter ethnic clashes between the Kikuyu and Kalinjen tribes.
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Children wait behind a gate, that is being guarded by armed wardens from the Kenyan Wildlife Service, at a food distribution point in Kisumu, Western Kenya.
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A woman lies with her child in a transit center at St Stephen’s Church, Kisumu, that has been established for the thousands of people who have been forced to flee their homes as a result of post election violence.
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A woman arrives from Nairobi at a transit center in St Stephen’s Church, Kisumu that has been established for the thousands of people who have been forced to flee their homes as a result of post election violence.
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A family stand in front of a bus that they are taking back to their tribal homelands in Western Kenya, after being forced to flee their homes in Naivasha as a result of post election violence.
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A family sits in a make shift camp at the showground in Kericho Western Kenya, after renewed ethnic violence in the region.
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A woman stands in the remains of a church near Eldoret that was burnt on January 1st with over 30 Kikuyu woman and children inside who all died.
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A woman and her children make tea in the early morning in a camp for displaced people in Mau Summit, Kenya.
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A group of children make tea in a camp for people who have been displace by land disputes and post election violence in Molo, Kenya.
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A group of children play in a camp for people displaced by land disputes in Molo, Kenya.
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Two women talk about the days events in a camp for displaced people in Mau Summit, Molo, Kenya.
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A Kikuyu woman surveys what remains of her house after it was burnt down when a group of men, suspected to be Kalinjens, burnt down a community of homes owned by Kikuyus and killed three men.
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A Kikuyu woman flees with her belongings, alongside a truck piled high with furniture, in Mau Summit, Western Kenya, after the town was attacked by a group of Kalinjen men who killed three people, on the day a power sharing deal was agreed by Kenya's two contending leaders, Kibaki and Odinga.
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A group of Kikuyu and Kalinjen elders pray together after an emergency community meeting, guarded by the Kenyan army, after a group of Kalinjen men killed three Kikuyus in Mau Summit, Western Kenya on the day a power sharing deal was agreed between Kibaki and Odinga, the two contesting Kenyan leaders.
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People celebrate in the streets of Kisumu, the heartland of Raila Odinga the leader of Kenys'a ODM Party support. A power sharing agreement was finally reached after a month of negotiations between Odingas ODM Party and Kibakis's PNU Party .
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