AFP: Ethnic cleansing in Kenya? 01 February

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki faced increasing international pressure on Thursday to agree to a power-sharing deal to end Kenya's post-election turmoil. Former UN chief Kofi Annan, who has been mediating crisis talks, is pushing for a "grand coalition" government to resolve a dispute over December elections that unleashed violence in which more than 1,000 people have died. As political and diplomatic attempts to find a solution to the crisis continue, ethnic tensions remain rife in several parts of the country. In Nairobi's Mathare slum, a youth association won a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2003 for its success in fostering community development through sports and particularly soccer. It now finds itself faced with a new challenge. An AFPTV report.

Niger's ethnic groups are encouraged to mock each other - gently. The technique is said to prevent worse clashes and is credited with guaranteeing their peaceful co-existence. Urbanisation is threatening the tradition and so the government has launched a special week to promote ethnic mocking. An AFPTV report.

Princeton historian Jan Gross has drummed up controversy with his new book "Fear", which accuses Poland of having forced out Jews who survived the Holocaust. Gross, a Polish-born academic, denounces as "ethnic cleansing" the expulsion of Germans and Ukrainians after 1945 and the pressure brought to bear on Holocaust survivors to leave the country. An AFPTV report.

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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.

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