MzalendoHalisi
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan said Monday the Kenyan government and governing party have rejected his choice to lead mediation efforts in talks to end a deadly postelection crisis.
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Cyril Ramaphosa, a South African businessman who had played a leading role in talks in his own country to end apartheid, withdrew "in the face of reservations by the government and Party of National Unity," and his withdrawal was accepted with regret, Annan said in a statement.
Ramaphosa said he could not function in the job "without the complete confidence of both parties."
"I thought I should withdraw and go back to South Africa so I don't become a stumbling block myself," he told reporters outside the Serena Hotel, the venue of the negotiations.
The announcement came hours after Kenya's opposing political forces resumed talks to end weeks of violence following the disputed Dec. 27 election that brought President Mwai Kibaki back to power for a second five-year term. Violence since has killed more than 800 and left 300,000 homeless.
There was no immediate comment from Kibaki's representatives or opposition leader Raila Odinga's team.
Violence, meanwhile, flared.
At least seven people were killed overnight in battles between Kisii and Kalenjin communities, in a region 155 miles west of the capital, said the district commissioner of Sotik town, Humphrey Nakitare.
On Monday, hundreds of youths armed with bows and arrows and machetes attacked one another in an area where 2,000 people have fled their homes during nine days of clashes, Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Hassan Noor said. Dozens of houses were burned overnight, witnesses said.
Earlier, Odinga had called for international peacekeepers to help quell the violence in Kenya, once considered one of the most stable countries on the continent.
Angalieni vile Kenya wanapata taabu na huyu mama,Kweli kiama kilifika huyu mama alipoingia Ikulu.Jazba na mori ni kama majina yake ya kando.
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Huyo mama ni aibu tupu hata sijui kama anaweza kukaa meza moja na first lady wa Bongo.Jamani Kenya wanahitaji maombi ya nguvu aisee!!Lucy ni kama kichekesho flani hivi!
By the way- Is she mentally ok?
Lucy ni kama kichekesho flani hivi!
By the way- Is she mentally ok?
WITHIN 30 MINUTES AFTER kIBAKI WAS ANNOUNCED VICTOR, HE WAS WORN IN AT ATATE HOUSE WITH GUESTS AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE. DO YOU WANT TO TELL ME THAT THE CHIEF JUSTICE WAS NOT AT STATE HOUSE WHEN THE RESULTS WERE ANNOUNCED.
YOU MIGHT BE BLINDED BY THE FACT THAT YOU ARE A KIKUYU BUT THE THING IS THE CJ WAS WAITING FOR THE RESULTS TO BE ANNOUNCED AT ASTATE HOUSE AND NEW VERY WELL IT WOULD BE IN FOVOUR OF kIBAKI.
Usage of capital letters is really not necessary.Whom are u shouting at?Let's be fair.If Kibaki rigged,pliz tell Kenyans where an how the rigging was done.Initially the rigging was claimed by ODM to have happened in Nithi(constituency in Eastern province),Njoro(Rift Valley) an Juja(Central).Nowadays u don't hear about none of em by ODM.If the election was actually flawed,they should be actively following up an backing up their statements as to these 3 areas.Any sane person who actually did see what happened live at KICC when the results were being announced should have noticed that ODM acted very uncivil.The impression was.ODM wins or else....Henceforth,Kenya is now in the gutter.
i did actually read the sad story.This is a tragicomedy.I will console maself an get selfish in knowing that both my first an last names have nothing to do with any Kenyan tribe.Then i will travel across the country as an "outsider".
Usage of capital letters is really not necessary.Whom are u shouting at?Let's be fair.If Kibaki rigged,pliz tell Kenyans where an how the rigging was done.Initially the rigging was claimed by ODM to have happened in Nithi(constituency in Eastern province),Njoro(Rift Valley) an Juja(Central).Nowadays u don't hear about none of em by ODM.If the election was actually flawed,they should be actively following up an backing up their statements as to these 3 areas.Any sane person who actually did see what happened live at KICC when the results were being announced should have noticed that ODM acted very uncivil.The impression was.ODM wins or else....Henceforth,Kenya is now in the gutter.
I EMPHASIZE STILL, FOR THE SAKE OF KNOWING THE THRUTH WOULD YOU PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW?
1) HOW COME THE EU SAID THE POLLS WERE NOT CREDIBLE? ARE THEY MAD THEY JUST CAME UP WITH THEIR CONCLUSION FROM THE BLUES?
2) HOW COME THAT THE CHAIRMANS (A SANE PERSON) SAID THAT HE WAS PRESSURED TO ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS AND ACTUALLY HE DOES NOT KNOW WHO WON THE ELECTIONS.
3) HOW COME ODM WON MORE THAT 100 SEATS IN PARLIAMENT AND PNU JUST SECURED 40 SEATS.
4) HOW COME 4 OF ECK COMMISSIONERS CONFESSED THAT THERE WAS RIGGING AND THE RESULTS HAD BEEN ALTERED.
5) HOW COME NO OTHER PRESIDENT APART FROM MUSEVENI CONGRATULATED kIBAKI.
6) HOW COME 20 CABINET MINISTERS WERE NOT VOTED IN, IN DEC 27TH? DONT YOU THINK PEOPLE WANTED CHANGES.
7) HOW COME CURRENTLY THERE IS MEDIATION IN KENYA.
8) HOW COME kIBAKI WAS SWORN IN JUST TEN MINUTES AFTER HE WAS ANNOUNCED, WHERE DID HE GET THE TIME TO ORGANISED THE FUNCTION CALL THE GUESTS, ARRANGED FOR THE CHIEF JUSTICE TO COME AND CONDUCT THE CEREMONY. DONT YOU THINK THIS WAS PRE-ARRANGED AND IF SO, DO YOU THINK kIBAKI WAS READY TO ACCEPT DEFEATE?
9) HOW COME THE WINNER WAS NOT ANNOUNCED LIVE AND INSTEAD IN A ROOM WHERE NO OTHER JOUNALIST WAS ALLOWED APART FROM THAT OF KBC WAS ALLOWED?
10) HOW COME KENYA HAS BEEN THROUGH A NUMBER OF ELECIONS SINCE 1992 BUT NONE LIKE THIS?
11) HOW COME MUGABE WERE WAS KILLED?
12) HOW COME A WHOLE COMMISSSIONER OF POLICE SAID THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE SHOOTING OF THE SECOND ODM MP WAS AS A RESULT OF A LOVE TRIANGLE, WITHOUT EVEN HAVING CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION. HE JUST CONCLUDED, OR IS THIS HOW KENYANS HANDLE THEIR INVESTIGATIONS.
13) HOW COME THE USA (FBI) OFFERED TO HELP IN THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE MURDERS THROUGH THEIR EMBASSY BUT STILL THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT YET ANSWERED?
MAZEE LET ME TELL YOU, I HAVE LIVED IN KENYA FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS NIMESOMA HUKO NA NINA NDUGU NA MARAFIKI HUKO WENGI TU. KATIKA KILA MTU NIMPIGIAE SIMU TOKA KENYA NIKIMUULIZA KUHUSU ATAMPIGIA NANI KURA, JIBU LILIKUWA RAILA NA ODM. YANI RAILA ANAKUBALIKA SANA. I DID MY RANDOMN SAMPLE ARROUND OCTOBER NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER AND I BELIEVE MY SAMPLE WAS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE POPULATION AND ALSO THE SAMPLE SIZE I HAD COLLECTED WAS SIGNIFICANT.
MAZEE NTA-SHOUT HADI KESHO LAKINI JUA THIS TELL kIBAKI MADE HE WORST DECISION IN HIS LIFE PALE ALIVYOKATAA KUNG'OKA MADARAKANI. YANI ALIDHANI MAMBO YATAISHA HIVI HIVI TU, LAKINI ANACHO. MWAMBIE POLE SANA NAJUA WEWE NI KIBARAKA WAKE UNATAKA KULETA PRAPAGANDA HAPA JF ILA JIBU HAYO MASWALI HAPO JUU MOJA BAADA YA JINGINE IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH. MAZEE NYAKATI HIZI NI ZA SAYANSI NA TECHNOLOGIA NA PEOPLE ARE ENLIGHTENED, PROPADANGA ZA POROJO UNATAKIWA UZIPELEKE VIJINI SIO HAPA KWA LEARNED PEOPLE. MWANZO JINA LAKO LENYEWE NI MATATIZO THIS ALSO SHOWS WHAT SORT OF A PERSONALITY YOU ARE.
I EMPHASIZE STILL, FOR THE SAKE OF KNOWING THE THRUTH WOULD YOU PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW?
1) HOW COME THE EU SAID THE POLLS WERE NOT CREDIBLE? ARE THEY MAD THEY JUST CAME UP WITH THEIR CONCLUSION FROM THE BLUES?
2) HOW COME THAT THE CHAIRMANS (A SANE PERSON) SAID THAT HE WAS PRESSURED TO ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS AND ACTUALLY HE DOES NOT KNOW WHO WON THE ELECTIONS.
3) HOW COME ODM WON MORE THAT 100 SEATS IN PARLIAMENT AND PNU JUST SECURED 40 SEATS.
4) HOW COME 4 OF ECK COMMISSIONERS CONFESSED THAT THERE WAS RIGGING AND THE RESULTS HAD BEEN ALTERED.
5) HOW COME NO OTHER PRESIDENT APART FROM MUSEVENI CONGRATULATED kIBAKI.
6) HOW COME 20 CABINET MINISTERS WERE NOT VOTED IN, IN DEC 27TH? DONT YOU THINK PEOPLE WANTED CHANGES.
7) HOW COME CURRENTLY THERE IS MEDIATION IN KENYA.
8) HOW COME kIBAKI WAS SWORN IN JUST TEN MINUTES AFTER HE WAS ANNOUNCED, WHERE DID HE GET THE TIME TO ORGANISED THE FUNCTION CALL THE GUESTS, ARRANGED FOR THE CHIEF JUSTICE TO COME AND CONDUCT THE CEREMONY. DONT YOU THINK THIS WAS PRE-ARRANGED AND IF SO, DO YOU THINK kIBAKI WAS READY TO ACCEPT DEFEATE?
9) HOW COME THE WINNER WAS NOT ANNOUNCED LIVE AND INSTEAD IN A ROOM WHERE NO OTHER JOUNALIST WAS ALLOWED APART FROM THAT OF KBC WAS ALLOWED?
10) HOW COME KENYA HAS BEEN THROUGH A NUMBER OF ELECIONS SINCE 1992 BUT NONE LIKE THIS?
11) HOW COME MUGABE WERE WAS KILLED?
12) HOW COME A WHOLE COMMISSSIONER OF POLICE SAID THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE SHOOTING OF THE SECOND ODM MP WAS AS A RESULT OF A LOVE TRIANGLE, WITHOUT EVEN HAVING CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION. HE JUST CONCLUDED, OR IS THIS HOW KENYANS HANDLE THEIR INVESTIGATIONS.
13) HOW COME THE USA (FBI) OFFERED TO HELP IN THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE MURDERS THROUGH THEIR EMBASSY BUT STILL THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT YET ANSWERED?
MAZEE LET ME TELL YOU, I HAVE LIVED IN KENYA FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS NIMESOMA HUKO NA NINA NDUGU NA MARAFIKI HUKO WENGI TU. KATIKA KILA MTU NIMPIGIAE SIMU TOKA KENYA NIKIMUULIZA KUHUSU ATAMPIGIA NANI KURA, JIBU LILIKUWA RAILA NA ODM. YANI RAILA ANAKUBALIKA SANA. I DID MY RANDOMN SAMPLE ARROUND OCTOBER NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER AND I BELIEVE MY SAMPLE WAS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE POPULATION AND ALSO THE SAMPLE SIZE I HAD COLLECTED WAS SIGNIFICANT.
MAZEE NTA-SHOUT HADI KESHO LAKINI JUA THIS TELL kIBAKI MADE HE WORST DECISION IN HIS LIFE PALE ALIVYOKATAA KUNG'OKA MADARAKANI. YANI ALIDHANI MAMBO YATAISHA HIVI HIVI TU, LAKINI ANACHO. MWAMBIE POLE SANA NAJUA WEWE NI KIBARAKA WAKE UNATAKA KULETA PRAPAGANDA HAPA JF ILA JIBU HAYO MASWALI HAPO JUU MOJA BAADA YA JINGINE IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH. MAZEE NYAKATI HIZI NI ZA SAYANSI NA TECHNOLOGIA NA PEOPLE ARE ENLIGHTENED, PROPADANGA ZA POROJO UNATAKIWA UZIPELEKE VIJINI SIO HAPA KWA LEARNED PEOPLE. MWANZO JINA LAKO LENYEWE NI MATATIZO THIS ALSO SHOWS WHAT SORT OF A PERSONALITY YOU ARE.
Usage of capital letters is really not necessary.Whom are u shouting at?Let's be fair.If Kibaki rigged,pliz tell Kenyans where an how the rigging was done.Initially the rigging was claimed by ODM to have happened in Nithi(constituency in Eastern province),Njoro(Rift Valley) an Juja(Central).Nowadays u don't hear about none of em by ODM.If the election was actually flawed,they should be actively following up an backing up their statements as to these 3 areas.Any sane person who actually did see what happened live at KICC when the results were being announced should have noticed that ODM acted very uncivil.The impression was.ODM wins or else....Henceforth,Kenya is now in the gutter.