Photo: Boniface Mwangi/IRIN |
| President Mwai Kibaki shakes hands with opposition leader Raila Odinga in the presence of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan |
NAIROBI, 30 January 2008 (IRIN) - The "official dialogue process" began on 29 January between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), even as violence that has ravaged the country since late December continued to spread, with the latest casualty a Member of Parliament who was shot dead outside his home in Nairobi, the capital.
Pledging his commitment to the process of national healing and reconciliation, Kibaki announced that 32 fully-equipped police stations would be built in parts of the country affected by the violence. He said Ksh700 million (US$10 million) had already been committed to this project. |
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Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN |
| A demonstrator runs from a burning car set on fire by irate youths after a funeral service called by opposition ODM was tear-gassed in Nairobi |
NAIROBI, 29 January 2008 (IRIN) - Most of Kenya's public universities have yet to reopen amid fears of riots and ethnic bloodshed following December's disputed polls.
The opening of Maseno University in the opposition stronghold of Luo-dominated Nyanza Province in western Kenya has been postponed until April because it was not considered safe for Kikuyu students from Central Province, the home turf of Kikuyu President Mwai Kibaki, to return.
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Photo: Daimler Chrysler SA |
| Industries have been hit hard by the frequent power outages |
JOHANNESBURG, 28 January 2008 (IRIN) - Production in most South African mines - which include some of the world's biggest producers of gold and platinum and are the backbone of the country's economy - has been brought to a halt by recurrent power outages, sparking concerns over possible job losses.
"The mining industry is losing about R300 million [about US$42 million] a day as a result of the shutdown," said Mike Schussler, a leading South African economist. He warned that the stoppage had already begun to slow the economy, which would have a long-term impact on government's goal to halve unemployment and poverty by 2014. |
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Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN |
| New arrivals at Nakuru showground IDP camp (16 January) |
NAKURU, 26 January 2008 (IRIN) - Nakuru residents made up most of the new arrivals at the town's showground camp set up for people fleeing post-election violence in neighbouring districts, according to a local aid official. The camp holds 5,900 people, according to coordinator Jesse Njoroge who said most of the 696 new arrivals were from Nakuru itself.
Violence continued in Nakuru for a third day on Saturday (26 January 2008). In the central Rift Valley town, police fired in the air to disperse large groups of angry youths from the town centre. An overnight curfew and army deployment had not fully quelled the communal violence and houses were still seen burning.
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Photo: Mamadou Alpha Diallo/IRIN |
| Crumbling concrete that was once a home in a village in Senegal's southern Casamance region. Many people trying to return are facing a lack of water -- for drinking and for making bricks to rebuild |
ZIGUINCHOR, 25 January 2008 (IRIN) - Despite a lingering landmine threat, families who years ago fled fighting in Senegal’s southern Casamance region are slowly trying to return to their home villages. But a lack of water – for drinking and for building homes – is keeping many away.
With some villages abandoned for 15 years, wells have collapsed or are full of debris. Entire communities have been swallowed up in dense bush, and homes and other buildings which are mostly made of mud-brick have been wiped out.
“The main problem holding us back before was the mines,” said Bouba Diémé, from the village of Soukouta, in the rural community of Boutoupa Camaracounda some 20km east of the Casamance capital Ziguinchor. |
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Photo: Eva-Lotta Jansson/IRIN/IFRC |
| Keeping children safe |
JOHANNESBURG, 24 January 2008 (IRIN) - South African AIDS activists have called on doctors and nurses to act in the best interests of HIV-positive pregnant women and their unborn children by not waiting any longer for an official directive to switch from single antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to more effective dual treatment for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT).
At a meeting of the South African National AIDS Council in November 2007 South Africa’s Deputy President and the Director-General of Health announced that public health facilities would abandon the regimen of administering nevirapine only in favour of a short course of two antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for pregnant HIV-positive women. |
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