Pulitzer finalist: Breaking News Photography

January 16, 2008:Armed with machetes and rocks, supporters of Raila Odinga face off with their opponents before being chased way by the army.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 6, 2008:A woman cowers as a paramilitary police use a stick to get her to move from the Mathare slum of Nairobi, where more than a thousand people tried to get food aid from the Red Cross.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 6, 2008: Hundreds of people followed Red Cross food distribution trucks through the Mathare slum of Nairobi. Riot police were called in to control the situation.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 16, 2008: On the second day of a nation wide protest rally in opposition to President Kibaki’s re-election, violence broke out in the slums of Nairobi and in the downtown business district. Riot police used tear gas and fired live rounds to disperse people in Kibera slum.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 16, 2008: A protester launches a rock at police in the Kibera neighborhood, where clashes between supporters of Odinga and police went on throughout the day.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 16, 2008: On the second day of a nation wide protest rally in opposition to President Kibaki’s administration, violence broke out in the slums of Nairobi and in the downtown business district.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 16, 2008: Kenyan police with clubs surround a man in the Kibera slum of Nairobi where they had gone in search of agitators. He was released after being roughed up.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 18, 2008: Residents in the Kibera slum mourn over a woman and man killed when police opened fire on protesters.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 17, 2008: A group of men carry an injured man shot by police in the neck and back in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 17, 2008: In the Kibera slum of Nairobi, protesters turn over a section of the railroad tracks after breaking the ties, damaging the railroad that leads from Nairobi to Uganda.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 13, 2008: Residents of Katata, site of a tiny coffee farm in Kenya’s western Rift Valley, patrol their village after a recent attack that left one person dead and 32 homes destroyed.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 5, 2008: After tribal violence over the disputed election, people relocate in a Nairobi slum divided by a creek: Kikuyus on one side, Luos on the other.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 8, 2008: Fleeing violence in their hometown, Morris Nyamonde, father of two, center, his wife and brother, George Otieno, ride a bus headed north away from home. They don’t know when they will be able to return.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

January 5, 2008: Parishioners pray in a partly burned Lutheran church in Kibera, another of Nairobi’s slums, where severe food shortages have fueled instability.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)