Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A CSIS event with U.S. ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger was quoted by the Associated Press, "New Ethnic Fighting in Nairobi Slum."
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A CSIS event with U.S. ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger was quoted by the Associated Press, "New Ethnic Fighting in Nairobi Slum."
Renewed ethnic fighting broke out in a Kenyan slum Sunday following the deaths of more than 20 people in demonstrations against the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
Several homes were set ablaze in Nairobi's Mathare slum in hours of running battles between Kikuyu and Luo ethnic groups, resident Boniface Shikami said. Read the article
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