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Kenya: recent dates worth remembering

By team ⋅ March 27, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

The Guardian, 1st February

Dec 27th 2007: Kenya’s elections
Dec 30th 2007: Riots of Mwai Kibaki’s disputed presidential victory.
Jan 1st 2008: Thirty Kikuyus killed in church fire.
Jan 4th 2008: The UN says that the rest has uprooted 250,000 people.
Jan 7th 2008: John Kufour, the African Union chairman and president of Ghana, arrives for fruitless mediation.
Jan 17th 2008: Police fire teargas and bullets on banned opposition rallies.
Jan 24th 2008: Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan brokers meeting between Kibaki and Odinga.
Jan 28th 2008: At least 64 killed in four days of fighting.
Feb 1st 2008: UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon arrives in Nairobi.