Kenya Lobbies Africa to Stop Polls Violence Case

Kenyan leaders are lobbying African nations in a bid to get the United Nations Security Council to stop prosecutions of top politicians accused of responsibility for the violence which followed the last elections.

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka lobbied Africa Union Commission chair Jean Ping at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.

President Mwai Kibaki, flanked at a rally on Friday by two leaders facing indictment, William Ruto, left, and Uhuru Kenyatta.

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    UNIRIN, 20 January 2011

    After the Kenyan parliament failed last year to form a special tribunal to try those suspected of bearing the greatest responsibility for post-election violence in 2007-2008, the… Read more »

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