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KENYA: Police Reform? Return To Sender, Say Rights Groups
By George Kebaso
NAIROBI - The top policeman accused of supporting Kenya's post-election violence, in which thousands were killed or raped because of their ethnicity, has been given a cushy job as head of the country’s postal service.
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US: Clinton Pledges Military Aid to Somalia and Other African Countries
By Daniel Volman*
WASHINGTON - On Aug. 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed in Kenya and pledged to provide more military aid and training to the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
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POLITICS: Clinton’s Africa Tour to Stress U.S. Commitments
By Daniel Volman*
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left yesterday on a seven-nation trip to Africa that has elicited an appeal from Human Rights Watch for her to put human rights at the top of her agenda. During her eleven-day trip, Clinton will visit Kenya, South Africa, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Liberia, and Cape Verde.
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KENYA: Govt Fails to Keep Word on Tribunals
By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON - The Kenyan government has reneged on its commitments to call on independent, international tribunals to try perpetrators of 2007 post-election violence. This move is being criticised by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York City-based organisation that advocates against human rights abuses.
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RIGHTS-KENYA: Justice Waits While Debate Rages Over Tribunal
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - Kenya's cabinet is expected to meet Monday to review a bill establishing how the masterminds of the country's post-election violence will be punished.
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RIGHTS: Kenya Cannot Fail to Prosecute Extra-Judicial Killings
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - When stock is taken of the Kenyan coalition government’s first year in office no marks will be awarded to its handling of extra-judicial killings in the country. Human rights activists claim that the police have murdered about 500 people in the past 16 months.
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KENYA: Words that Reshape a Country’s Identity
Kristin Palitza interviews BILLY KAHORA, editor of Kenyan journal Kwani?
DURBAN - The goal is ambitious: Kenya’s first literary journal, Kwani?, wants to bring new thinking to the country - and ultimately the continent - and reshape African identities. The journal aims to provoke, create, entertain and develop a literary community that isn’t afraid to question the status quo.
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RIGHTS-KENYA: Rethinking 'Return Home'
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - The most urgent test of the grand coalition in Kenya is resettlement of the estimated 350,000 or so people made homeless by the violence after the December 2007 elections. Launched in May, the government's Operation 'Return Home' has been riddled with flaws and many experts on internal displacement argue it has exacerbated the crisis rather than resolving it.
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Q&A: "They Mobilised Violence For Their Own Reasons"
Interview with Jacqueline Klopp, assistant professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
NAIROBI - The text of the Kenyan National Dialogue and Reconciliation Accord, brokered by former UN chief Kofi Annan in March this year and released to the press in full last Sunday, identifies land as one of the central issues creating "economic, social, political and environmental problems" in the country.
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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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