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As the crisis unfolded around them, local and international businesses in Kenya and across the region struggled to stay afloat. "The event has had an impact on all business sectors," says Hedwig Nafula, COO and facilitator for Teknosell, a project enterprise management consultancy in Nairobi, Kenya. "Since the political violence in Kenya took a tribal dimension, project personnel from targeted communities had to move out of some project areas for their safety.
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Kenya shocks Obama
Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama was shaken by the political violence in Kenya, as he told a radio station in Nairobi this week that the "troubling events" in his father's homeland "bear no resemblance" to the nation he knew as a "proud example" of democracy in East Africa.
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In response to the need for urgent medical care for people displaced by political unrest and violence in Kenya, the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP), part of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, held a mobile medical clinic last month at the police lines near Mathare in Nairobi.
ICAP is heartened to be able to provide medical services and support to the people of Kenya whose lives have been affected by the unrest," said ICAP Director Wafaa El-Sadr,M.D.
ICAP Nurse Zilpha Samoei, Clinical Officer Simon Kibera, and Nelson Mureithi (ICAP staff member) dispense prescriptions at the Mathare medical camp and promote the message: What is the benefit of knowing your HIV status?
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Political and ethnic loyalties have long intertwined in Kenya, and the violence that erupted after President Mwai Kibaki claimed re-election shows how volatile the mix can be.
Kibaki threatened a tough crackdown Monday as rioters rampaged for a third day to protest what they called his sham re-election - a bloody convulsion threatening what has been East Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy.
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In many cases the chief architects of post-election violence were prominent and well-known individuals," stated HRW in a report entitled "Ballots to Bullets: Organized Political Violence and Kenya's Crisis of Governance.
Mar. 18 (GIN) - As Kenya's political leaders patch up their disputes that brought the country close to chaos, the international Human Rights Watch has called for prosecution of those who instigated the worst abuses.
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