“Never Again” in Kenya?
Less than three months before Kenya's next general election, many fear a recurrence of the bloodshed that followed the 2007 presidential vote. Indeed, the root causes of the violence – poverty, ethnic tensions, corruption, and weak security – have not been addressed, and the politicians who incited it have not been held accountable.
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NAIROBI – As Kenya approaches its general election on March 4, memories of the bloodshed that marred the controversial 2007 presidential election remain fresh. The vote ended in a standoff between the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, who declared himself the winner, and the opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, who dismissed the vote as rigged. The ensuing ethnic clashes claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people, and displaced another 250,000.