Post Election Trouble In Kenya

Odinga and Kibaki seem to have toned down their rhetoric and seem to have agreed to some sort of accommodation after the elections on December 27, 2007. Now, after 12 days dislocation and fear of violence is still very real.

A friend received this message from a Kenyan artist who deals with her in African art:

Dear N....,

Thanks for praying for us. My family was in Nairobi, I was in Kitale near Eldoret reporting for KBC radio when the violence broke out. The situation is horror terrible. In Nairobi it is calm in the city center but there is tension everywhere. I passed at eldoret yesterday and what Isaw was terrible burnt shops, houses, poeple in their thousands in church compounds without water and food. Along the Nairobi Eldoret road burnt houses, shops, burnt maizefields and hundreds of people walking along the highway in terrible situation. My family is trapped in the outskirts without food and other basics. I cant reach them but am still trying. We are NOT sure whether the situation is going to improve or worsen.

Thanx.

B.......