Fighting flares in Nairobi slum
Several people were beaten and hacked to death with machetes in a Nairobi slum in renewed ethnic fighting over Kenya’s disputed election, residents said.
Bloodshed in the Mathare slum, like much of the fighting since the disputed Dec. 27 vote, was between President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe and challenger Raila Odinga’s Luo tribe.
Police elsewhere quelled more than two days of fierce fighting around a Catholic monastery in the Rift Valley in which 22 people were killed and 200 homes burned.
A government commission says more than 600 people have been killed in postelection violence.
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