Kenya Crisis

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Contents 1 Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp is stationed in Nairobi, Kenya 2 Ruud Elmendorp 3 Resources & Links 4 Kenyan Blogs 5 Chronology of the Crisis

[edit] Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp is stationed in Nairobi, Kenya

This page will be used to reference and link to new reports from Kenya on the election instability as they become available. Please also feel free to add links to additional resources and links below.

[edit] Ruud Elmendorp

http://videoreporter.nl/

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Aid Worker Video Diary from the heart of Kenya's Ethnic Crisis

[edit] Resources & Links

Please feel free to edit this page to include related resources and links

1. Ushahidi.com A website created to allow Kenyan citizens to report acts of violence via SMS, email or the web. Each event is plotted, tracked and verified.
2. United Nations World Food ProgrammeAs of January 23, 2008, this is one of the few programs that are armed and can really get food to the worst areas in the region.
3. Generation for Change and Growth
4. Global Partners
5. Around the world for free Alex was in Nairobi during the riots (check videos day103 to day108)
6. Global Voices Online - Kenya aggregates international blog coverage about political activism in Kenya. Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.
7. For local reports from Kenya's national broadcast tv, check out the NTV channel on YouTube

[edit] Kenyan Blogs

If you are a Kenyan blogger or know of a relevant blog, please add to the list.

1. Insight Kenya - Very intense photo documentation
2. Kenyan Pundit - Ory Okolloh is a Kenyan who graduated with a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2005. She is currently based in South Africa working as the Legal and Corporate Affairs Manager for Enablis and as a consultant on telecommunications and citizen journalism in Africa.
3. Funua - Concerned Kenyan - Articles on the aftermath of the 2007 Election.
4. SIASA DUNI - "Truth comes only to conquer those who have lost the art of recieving it as a friend..."
5. What an African Woman Thinks - It's my window, but I don't own the view.
6. Kenyan Diaspora Pro-democracy Movement
7. South of West - A journalist in Africa
8. Kwani Blog
9. Travels with Msafiri - Diary of a traveller about the local scenes in Kenya and the rest of East Africa. Political, cultural and social issues, funny stories, pictures and sounds of the places visited...
10. Kenya Imagine - An alternative media system, one that is free and policed not by editor prejudices but by the common bounds of decency.
11. Kumekucha (You Missed This) - One of the most popular blogs in Kenya on this topic.

12. http://www.mentalacrobatics.com/think/ 13.http://wendwa.yakuti.org/

[edit] Chronology of the Crisis

(Writing by Jijo Jacob and David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)

Dec. 27 - Voters elect a new president and parliament. Most opinion polls put Kibaki's opposition rival Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement in the lead.

Dec. 30 - The Electoral Commission of Kenya declares Kibaki winner of the election and he is hurriedly sworn in.

Dec. 31 - The government floods the streets with security forces and maintains a ban on live TV broadcasts after riots convulse the nation.

Jan. 1 - A mob torches a church, killing about 30 villagers.

Jan. 2 - Kibaki's government accuses Odinga's backers of "ethnic cleansing" as the death toll from tribal violence rises.

Jan. 3 - Attorney General Amos Wako calls for an independent investigation into the election.

-- South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu begins to try to mediate.

Jan 4 - Kibaki says he would accept a re-run of the disputed election if a court orders it.

-- The United Nations says the unrest has uprooted 250,000 people, and that about 100,000 displaced people in the Northern Rift Valley could face starvation. The International Red Cross makes an urgent appeal for aid.

Jan 5 - Kibaki says he is ready to form a government of national unity to end the turmoil, but the opposition rejects the offer.

Jan 7 - Odinga calls off planned protests after meeting U.S. envoy Jendayi Frazer, saying the mediation process is about to begin.

Jan 8 - Kibaki announces 17 ministers for his new cabinet. Protesters respond by building burning barricades in Odinga's western stronghold of Kisumu.

-- African Union Chairman and Ghanaian President John Kufuor arrives in Nairobi to mediate.

Jan 10 - Kufuor leaves Kenya saying both sides have agreed to work together with an African panel headed by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. However Kibaki and Odinga, amid recriminations, did not meet or agree how to end the crisis.

Jan 11 - The ODM calls for international sanctions against Kibaki.

Jan 14 - The death toll in unrest rises to 612 according to aid agencies.

Jan 15 - Parliament is convened and the opposition gets a boost by winning the post of speaker in the assembly.

Jan 16 - Police fight hundreds of protesters in trouble spots across the country, killing three, as the opposition defy a ban on rallies.

Jan 17 - In Nairobi, and the western towns of Kisumu and Eldoret, police fire teargas and bullets during rallies called by the opposition but banned by police. The opposition accuse police of killing seven.

Jan 18 - At least 13 people are killed when police open fire in a Nairobi slum and ethnic groups clash during protests.

Jan 19 - Five people in a refugee camp in the Rift Valley are killed by opposition supporters. The opposition movement say it will resume protests next week over the disputed election, just having finished three days of demonstrations in which at least 23 died.

(Writing by Jijo Jacob and David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)