Sunday, January 20, 2008

Kenyan Crisis

Both of these articles summarize the dismal state that Kenya is in after the re-election of Mwai Kibaki, the president of Kenya. These stories were the headlines stories in each sources section on Africa. BBC World has chosen to direct it story towards the EU's influence and command over the situation, while Al Jazeera continues to report more on violent outbreaks and ethnic tensions. 

Make sure to look through the photographs these two sites have posted to describe this particular situation. Some are terrifyingly brilliant and, I believe, really portray the brutal situation in Kenya rather than the actual elections result and what it will mean for Kenyans. 

I would also like to point out that when searching for this subject matter in a popular Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, a single story on Kenya's crisis could not be found...


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is a stunning article that shows how people from the same society can create an environment of conflict, chaos, and havoc that can only be identified as a result of hatred and disagreement. The conflict in Kenya between the Luo and the Kikuyu seems to parallel that of racial discrimination in the American south between the blacks and whites in the 1960s. Michael