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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 27, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Augusto Pinochet, United States, Aung San Suu Kyi, Europe, George W Bush, Ibrahim Gambari, Moscow Kremlin, Muqtada Al Sadr, Mwai Kibaki, Nairobi, Raila Odinga, Stephanie Mccrummen, Vladimir Putin, Yangon, European Union, Japan, Kenya, Myanmar, Portugal, Russi

  The military government released 50 members of Burma's pro-democracy party on the same day its representative met with their leader in a response to international pressure over the crushing of peaceful demonstrations, a party spokesman said Friday.

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• Messing With Success

  Published: December 22, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: International Edition, Mwai Kibaki, Kenya, Raila Odinga, Nairobi

  Under Kibaki, Kenya has blossomed. So why is the man responsible about to lose the election?

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• The Crisis in Kenya -- Searching for Understanding and Hope

  Published: January 5, 2008, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Africa, Law, Media Journalism, Politics News, Demcracy Demonstrations, Jendayi Frazier, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Voting Rights, War On Terror

  has been rejected by Odinga. Joshua Wanyama at African Path understands why: "If Odinga enters a "government of national unity" under Kibaki, as the African Union and the United States want, then he's back in the untenable situation that he was in until 2005, and Kibaki will run Kenya for another five years. "If Odinga leaves it to

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• Periscope: Africa In Crisis

  Published: January 12, 2008, 12:54 pm

  Tags: International Edition, Rwanda, Kenya, Raila Odinga, George W Bush, Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni, Iran, Mwai Kibaki, Ehud Olmert, Gail Simone, Genocide, Contagious And Infectious Diseases, Medicine

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• Tribal Identity Shapes Kenyan Views, Realities

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Tribal, Identity, Shapes, Kenyan, Views, Realities, Samuel Mathu, Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta, Tommy Hilfiger Corporation, Daniel Moi, East Africa, Sudan, United Kingdom

  NAIROBI -- They grew up in farming villages -- Teddy Chwanya in the rolling hills of western Kenya and Samuel Mathu amid the cattle and flower farms of the country's lush central region.

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• In Tense Kenya, Opposition Elects One of Its Own to Lead Parliament

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Tense, Kenya, Opposition, Elects, One, Its, Own, Lead, Parliament, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Salim Lone, Kofi Annan, Nairobi, Kenya, Kenneth Marende, European Union, United Nations, United States

  NAIROBI, Jan. 15 -- Kenya's opposition party, which has accused President Mwai Kibaki of stealing a Dec. 27 election, scored a significant victory Tuesday when its candidate was elected speaker of parliament following a bitter and at times theatrical opening session.

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• 'There Will Be Blood'

  Published: January 16, 2008, 4:49 pm

  Tags: International, Raila Odinga, Mombasa, Kenya, Hussein Khalid, Nairobi, Mwai Kibaki, Protests And Demonstrations

  A surge of political protests re-ignites clashes in Kenya.

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• Protest Rallies Across Kenya Draw Relatively Small Crowds

  Published: January 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Protest, Rallies, Across, Kenya, Draw, Relatively, Small, Crowds, Nairobi, Raila Odinga, Najib Balala, Mwai Kibaki, Lexus Motor Company, Downtown Washington Dc, Eldoret, Ezekiel Muhaya, Serena Hotel, Odm Kenya, Hilton Hotels Corporation

  NAIROBI, Jan. 16 -- Three days of planned opposition rallies across Kenya began haltingly Wednesday, with police facing off against relatively small crowds in several cities and chasing opposition leaders with tear gas through the streets of the capital.

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• 11 Killed in Kenya as Police Fire on Demonstrators, Rival Groups Clash

  Published: January 19, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Killed, Kenya, Police, Fire, Demonstrators, Rival, Groups, Clash, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Nairobi, Cable News Network Lp Lllp, The Associated Press, Salim Lone, Amnesty International

  NAIROBI, Jan. 18 -- Three days of opposition protests ended violently Friday with hundreds of police officers shooting wildly at protesters in Nairobi's largest slum and clashes just a few miles from one of Kenya's most famous safari playgrounds. At least 11 people were killed.

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• Ripple Effects

  Published: January 19, 2008, 9:19 am

  Tags: The Council On Foreign Relations, Kenya, Somalia, Africa, Mwai Kibaki, U S Department Of State, Jendayi Frazer, Nigeria, U S Africa Command, Raila Odinga, African Politics, World Politics

  In Kenya, a contested election has polarized the nation and sent shock waves across the region, says the United States' most senior diplomat on African affairs.

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• The Man Who Would Be President

  Published: January 22, 2008, 2:28 pm

  Tags: International, Raila Odinga, Kenya, Mwai Kibaki

  Raila Odinga has a kaleidoscopic past and an unshakeable faith in the future. The forces that shaped the politician who says he won Kenya's disputed election.

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• The High Cost of Kenya's Turmoil

  Published: January 30, 2008, 5:48 pm

  Tags: International, Raila Odinga, Mwai Kibaki, Kenya, Kofi Annan, Nairobi

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: February 10, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Darfur, Abu Surouj, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Sderot, Kenya, Societe Generale Sa, Amit Kumar, Gaza Strip, Ishaq Nasir, John Granville, Khartoum, Paris, India, Israel, Israeli Defense Forces, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, United Nations, United States

  At least 27 people were killed in government attacks on three West Darfur villages, their families said Saturday, as they called for an end to raids that were leaving their homes in flames.

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• Bush, in Africa, Issues Warning to Kenya

  Published: February 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Africa, Issues, Warning, Kenya, George W Bush, Africa, Condoleezza Rice, United States, Tanzania, Cotonou, Mwai Kibaki, Jendayi Frazer, Kofi Annan, Air Force One, Eritrea, Liberia, Sudan, Darfur, Boni Yayi, Dar Es Salaam, Grand Cross, Raila Odinga, West Africa, Chad

  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 16 -- President Bush opened a six-day, five-nation tour of Africa on Saturday with a warning to Kenya's government that it needs to agree to a power-sharing arrangement with the opposition to settle a post-election upheaval that has torn the country apart.

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: March 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Robert Mugabe, Saudi Arabia, Simba Makoni, Movement For Democratic Change, Zimbabwe, Okinawa Prefecture, Benedicto Giron, Central Europe, Dumiso Dabengwa, Guatemala City, Kofi Annan, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Tyrone Hadnott, Walid Moal

  Saudi Arabia has advised its citizens in Lebanon, especially families living there, to leave immediately because of the security situation, a Lebanese government source said Saturday.

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