Why isn't this on front page news on huffpost!??? Its number one on Yahoo and front page on ALL OTHER news sites. Huffpost Wake up!!!!

Wanjiru,
I had trouble with all the points you made, they're meant to mislead pple for example (i)Kenya being a hub of peace. Does the word 'Mungiki' ring a bell?
ii) political stability. Does 24 yrs of Moi dictatorship, rape and plunder leave people any choice but to act like nothing mattered any more?
iii) economic growth. Read my comment above.
iv) ethnic cleansing. You're joking, right? What is the non PC term for tribal clashes.
Like you I deplore the lose of lives; innocent and otherwise, but winking at rigging that just took place isn't going to send the right message. Kibaki and any other Kenyan seeking office should learn that this will not be tolerated by the international community. I would careless if Kibaki had a heart attack and stopped wasting oxygen. I know I have taken this too personally. Kenya is like a second home to me and when it's ill, I do feel pain.

I should have added that the US has retracted its congratulations following international criticism of the elections.

I am an avid reader of HuffPost and was very disappointed to see that they had not a mention of the chaos going in Kenya. I would have written something myself, except I was busy updating a Kenyan site www.kenyaimagine.comm) to inform.

There is definitely a parallel between what happened in Florida and what is happening in Kenya, albeit Kenya's is a lot more blatant. It is not surprising that the American government was the first to congratulate the hastily sworn in president.

When you combine a failed electoral process and a huge disenfranchised community (poverty knows no tribal boundaries), it is not surprising to see the chaos that have marred Kenya's non-violent history (hmm, another parallel here is Ukraine... incidentally Kenya's opposition is known as the Orange Democratic movement).

There is a saying in Swahili: Nyati wakipigana, nyasi huumia which translates to: when two buffalos (or elephants) fight, the grass suffers most.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/31/kenya.elex/index.html

BTW: ...anyone seen Blackwater lately?...


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Anybody seen Karl Rove lately?

why doesn't the United Nations step in and solve it, they have done such a good job in rwanda and darfur.

I just saw the Kenyan opposition presidential candidate on NBC Nightly News, and here is exactly what he said:

"Democracy is expensive. We are prepared to pay the ultimate price to liberate this country from the shackles of a cabal of dictators".

If only we Americans had shown such courage when our Democratic process was stolen in 2000, and the Presidency handed to the criminal Bush and his cabal of neo-con dictators.

Seems the US is setting a good example of how
to steal elections. Nothing new here and the people have to live with it. Democracy - I think not.

"The Economist" was hopeful about a peaceful and example-setting election in Kenya when it wrote about it in the year-end double issue.

Here is a link to their current online article about Kenya's elections:

http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10415208&top_story=1

Is this more examples of American Style Democracy in action? Russia, Pakistan, Kenya. Is Ukraine having an election this year too?

stolen election? sounds familiar.

there was zero violence in Africa before Bush became president. this is all his fault and the neocons and halliburton, and capitalism. and brittany spears too.

Wanjiru, the Kenya you're talking about is a kenya many of us who've lived there do not know. The stability and economic growth you refer to has not helped the common wananchi. Instead prices have shot through the roof, people are divided more than ever...eve­n before the elections. There people who have obviously benefited and they're reluctact to leave office. By the way my family lived there when I was little and I recently took a job and wanted to make it my home, thinking the former regine was the culprit. Guess what? Now we know that Moi was nothing compared to this Kibaki fellow.