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Pray for Kenya at these difficult times with potical unrest. Pray for the church, for missionsprojects and for peace in the nation. We are in contact with friends and workers there. There are many needs, and many experience turmoil every day in a nation that normally is known to have peace and economic growth in the continent of Africa.
We urge you to pray for Kenya during this time of political instability.
Pray for the church, for missionworks, and for peace in the nation.
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Reported from
http://www.kenyanews.net/ on December.31.2007:
" Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki won a second term on Sunday December 30.2007 in an election victory challenged by the opposition that triggered deadly riots by tens of thousands of his rival's supporters.
Pushing the stakes still higher, opposition challenger Raila Odinga rubbished the results as rigged and announced an alternative inauguration in Uhuru park, in Nairobi.
Official results showed Kibaki beating Odinga by 4.58 million votes to 4.35 million.
After earlier clashes and rumours of a possible declaration of a state of emergency, which last happened after in 1982, Kenyans mostly stayed at home.
To curb mounting chaos in a nation normally known as a haven of stability in volatile east Africa, the government sent trucks of police onto the streets and banned live TV transmissions.
In Kisumu, Kenya's third city and a bastion of defeated presidential challenger Raila Odinga, 46 bodies were brought to the mortuary.
At least 64 people were killed in western Kenya in post-election violence as angry opposition supporters clashed with police and rival tribal groups, police and officials said on Monday."
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008:
"Post-election violence has now killed at least 250 and forced some 70,000 people to flee their homes in the days since the vote.The death toll is now difficult to estimate, but it is believed that some 850 people have been killed since the vote."
"The violence begins a spiral of ethnic attacks as members of Kenya's different ethnic groups act on grievances over land and the perceived inequitable distribution of resources. This effects Kenya's economy, whose chief engines are horticulture, tourism and tea. All three industries have been crippled."
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