Kenya opposition wants further violence after the vote
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's opposition party called for a new presidential election of the dispute about a vote that has sparked days of deadly rioting, the police and tiny tear gas to disperse more than 1000 demonstrators the coastal city of Mombasa Friday.
The government said it was ready to accept a repetition of the electoral court. "We would also accept another option, as the Constitution. Should the courts to decide whether we accept," said Alfred Mutua, spokesman for President Mwai Kibaki.
The United States and Europe has been under pressure for reconciliation, said a "Made in Kenya solution" is needed to end the violence, which has killed 300 people and 100000 IDPs in which what was once praised , as is the case most stable democracies in Africa.
The jump east of the capital, on the coast and the uplands of the west. In Mombasa, a city heavily dependent on tourism, the police in 1500 that demonstrators were dispersed cries "Kibaki has stolen our votes!" There were no reports on the direct violations.
No sign of a mass protest in Nairobi
In Nairobi, supporters of opposition candidate, Raila Odinga praise street protests shook Nairobi a day earlier, on Friday afternoon, but there are no signs of a mass protest breaststroke. Small groups of demonstrators were gathering on the street corners in the slums, but that it was preparing a rally.
Deduct of international election observation of polling stations on December 27, Kibaki to power was defective returned.
Anyang Nyongo, general secretary of the Orange Odinga's democratic movement, said the country should be ready for a new election of the president. "Thanks to the call from the opposition to quit, appeared little room for a compromise with Kibaki, so that the political impasse for milling.
"This is a democracy and justice," said Nyongo. "We will continue to defend and promote the rights of Kenyans, so that the democratic process should be satisfied."
Salim Lone, a spokesman for Odinga, said: "We do not back down until a clear solution to the crisis through elections stolen."
Odinga, for a million people to gather Thursday in a park in the city centre, but postponed to Friday, after the demonstrators were detained by police in reducing water and tear gas.
"We have people die"
In Kibera, the country's largest slum, shops remained closed Friday, and small groups of demonstrators gathered on the road corners.
"Let people die, and then there will be a change," said Joshua Okoth, standing with a group of young men smoking through Kibera remains of a food market.
Okoth said he had tried to rally in Uhuru Park, a traditional meeting place for political activists, the crowd by police Friday. Riot police patrols were also the main traffic artery in Kibera, and other major slums of Nairobi.
Ruth Otieno,'s lives in Mathare slums of Nairobi, said Friday, 60 houses were burned and Mathare night, families evicted comments.
The graphic violence - burning buildings, machete-controlling gangs of looters to gasoline - heartbreakingly are available in a region that has been devastated by war, Somalia and Sudan, but has not so far in Kenya.
In some areas, the policy of confrontation in which violence has escalated pitting Kibaki's influential Kikuyus against Luo Odinga, and other tribes
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's opposition party called for a new presidential election of the dispute about a vote that has sparked days of deadly rioting, the police and tiny tear gas to disperse more than 1000 demonstrators the coastal city of Mombasa Friday.
The government said it was ready to accept a repetition of the electoral court. "We would also accept another option, as the Constitution. Should the courts to decide whether we accept," said Alfred Mutua, spokesman for President Mwai Kibaki.
The United States and Europe has been under pressure for reconciliation, said a "Made in Kenya solution" is needed to end the violence, which has killed 300 people and 100000 IDPs in which what was once praised , as is the case most stable democracies in Africa.
The jump east of the capital, on the coast and the uplands of the west. In Mombasa, a city heavily dependent on tourism, the police in 1500 that demonstrators were dispersed cries "Kibaki has stolen our votes!" There were no reports on the direct violations.
No sign of a mass protest in Nairobi
In Nairobi, supporters of opposition candidate, Raila Odinga praise street protests shook Nairobi a day earlier, on Friday afternoon, but there are no signs of a mass protest breaststroke. Small groups of demonstrators were gathering on the street corners in the slums, but that it was preparing a rally.
Deduct of international election observation of polling stations on December 27, Kibaki to power was defective returned.
Anyang Nyongo, general secretary of the Orange Odinga's democratic movement, said the country should be ready for a new election of the president. "Thanks to the call from the opposition to quit, appeared little room for a compromise with Kibaki, so that the political impasse for milling.
"This is a democracy and justice," said Nyongo. "We will continue to defend and promote the rights of Kenyans, so that the democratic process should be satisfied."
Salim Lone, a spokesman for Odinga, said: "We do not back down until a clear solution to the crisis through elections stolen."
Odinga, for a million people to gather Thursday in a park in the city centre, but postponed to Friday, after the demonstrators were detained by police in reducing water and tear gas.
"We have people die"
In Kibera, the country's largest slum, shops remained closed Friday, and small groups of demonstrators gathered on the road corners.
"Let people die, and then there will be a change," said Joshua Okoth, standing with a group of young men smoking through Kibera remains of a food market.
Okoth said he had tried to rally in Uhuru Park, a traditional meeting place for political activists, the crowd by police Friday. Riot police patrols were also the main traffic artery in Kibera, and other major slums of Nairobi.
Ruth Otieno,'s lives in Mathare slums of Nairobi, said Friday, 60 houses were burned and Mathare night, families evicted comments.
The graphic violence - burning buildings, machete-controlling gangs of looters to gasoline - heartbreakingly are available in a region that has been devastated by war, Somalia and Sudan, but has not so far in Kenya.
In some areas, the policy of confrontation in which violence has escalated pitting Kibaki's influential Kikuyus against Luo Odinga, and other tribes
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