Popular Opposition Leader Shot As Fighting Intensifies

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Writing for Kenya's East African newspaper, Martin Kimani observed: "Kenya's choices are simple: life or death, penury or prosperity, a cohesive, well-governed nation that counts its diversity as strength or a suspicious, hateful one governed by the cynical and awash with the blood of its young.

Speaking on Nairobi's Capital FM radio, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, said: "Now is the time for all parties to renounce violence. Now is the time for Kenyan leaders to rise above party affiliations and past ambitions for the sake of peace."

[...] in western Kenya's Rift Valley, homes were torched and store windows smashed while police and military helicopters flew over the crowd and officers began shooting, sending people running in panic.

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Popular Opposition Leader Shot As Fighting Intensifies

Jan. 29 (GIN)-An opposition lawmaker died Tuesday, shot to death as he drove home in Nairobi. ...

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