Reuters: Kenya violence creates refugees. 29 January
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Displaced people have been sheltering in flower farms and police stations in Rift Valley area. They left home with nothing and have been relying on hand outs from aid agencies in the country.
AFP: Kenya's Odinga defiant, despite protest violence 16 January
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Kenya endured a day of violent protests as police fire killed two opposition supporters and wounded several others in rallies nationwide. At a Nairobi press conference, opposition leader Raila Odinga vowed to go ahead with mass rallies planned to protest the presidential election results, despite the police crackdown.
Reuters: Gangs face off, west Kenya burns 28 January
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The violence has deepened growing anxiety since last month's elections cast the east African country into chaos. Mediation efforts continue - led by former UN chief Kofi Annan - but the violence has gathered a momentum of its own now. Annan is among those warning it runs broader and deeper than the dispute over President Mwai Kibaki's re-election, which the opposition says was rigged.
Reuters: More violence, more mediation 25 January
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Dozens of homes have been torched in the central Rift Valley, where at least 10 people have died in new ethnic clashes and thousands more have fled. The violence comes despite hopes of progress after President Mwai Kibaki met opposition leader Raila Odinga for the first time since December's disputed election. Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, is to hold more talks to try to end the crisis..
Reuters: Kenya's horror spreads 26 January
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Paramilitary police patrolled the Rift Valley provincial capital, which had previously been spared post-election chaos that has killed around 700 people since disputed Dec. 27 polls. More than 100 injured people were admitted at the local hospital, including one man with an arrow lodged in his head.
Reuters: Thousands flee homes in fear 26 January
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Armed gangs are manning roadblocks in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru and the authorities have imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in a bid to contain pitched battles between hundreds of tribal gangs armed with machetes, clubs and bows and arrows. Scores of displaced carrying their belongings were arriving at a church in Nakuru for shelter saying they were fleeing the armed gangs.
Sammy Obeid: Silicon Valley Gangs
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Gangs in Silicon Valley are so geeky it's scary.
Reuters: Kenya's opposition claims victory 03 January
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Tension reached boiling point when Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) results showed opposition leader Raila Odinga just ahead of President Mwai Kibaki with about a fifth of results left to come in. Later the opposition was just 38,000 votes ahead of the president with 86 percent of official constituency results in.
AFP: Iran's conservative rift 13 March
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In Iran's holy city of Qom, Ali Larijani is standing for election. The former key cabinet member, who led negotiations over Iran's nuclear crisis, stepped down last year after divergences of opinion with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
