Almost five months after Kenya’s elections threatened to tear teh country apart, the government is trying to resettle villagers uprooted from their homes.
But many fear further attacks if they go back, because of simmering tribal and ethnic tensions, while others say they have nothing to return to.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from a camp for displaced people in Eldoret, in Kenya’s Rift Valley.
In Kenya, there are signs of a possible breakthrought in the political deadlock that’s fuelled violent clashes between rival supporters.
However, young Kenyans left orphaned by the recent violence have been telling Al Jazeera about their horror at seeing their families massacred.
As John Cookson reports, many will need psychological counselling.
Thousands are on the move across western Kenya. With the continued violence they seek sanctuary wherever they can. In the Rift Valley, which has seen the worst of the violence, one religious order has opened its doors to hundreds of people. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow is the first international TV journalist to reach the monastery in Kipkelion and from there he sent this report.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from the Rift Valley region where ethnic violence continues despite mediation efforts. In the town of Naivasha, up to twenty people are thought to have been burned to death in their own homes. And in nearby Nakuru, at least 60 have died in the last few days.
The western Rift Valley has been the site of Kenya’s latest deadly clashes.In the provincial capital Nakuru, more than 60 people have been killed in the last three days. And in nearby Naivasha, gangs armed with machetes have been attacking rival tribe members.Former UN Chief Kofi Annan’s still trying to broker a deal between the country’s rival leaders, but as Mohammed Adow explains, he’s not having much success.