Summary
Parliament and the vibrant religious and civil society leadership mobilised and played a very positive role in containing ethnic clashes and condemning political leaders who incited violence. The report stated, 'Kenya has much strength that mitigate against the outbreak of mass violence, but it also exhibits many of the factors that have been markers of civil strife elsewhere such as strong ethnic divisions, socio-economic disparities, poverty and endemic corruption'.
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Back From the Brink?
kENYA' S POLITICAL LEADERS SEEM to be inching slowly back from the brink with the help of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and his negotiating team. An agreement to work for a political settlement has started to calm the atmosphere and there is hope the political crisis can be resolved.
Events since January have shown Kenya to be acutely vulnerable to violent ethnic conflict. But it ...See the full content of this document
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