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22 dead after final and
bloodiest day of protests
19 January 2008
By Todd Pitman, Nairobi, Kenya
MASAI fighters battled rival tribesman loyal to President Mwai
Kibaki yesterday, with both sides using machetes, swords, and bows
and arrows on the final and bloodiest day of protests this week
over Kenya’s disputed election.
In Nairobi’s Kibera slum and the coastal tourist town of Mombasa,
police and demonstrators fought in the streets.
Three days of protests called by Kenya’s opposition have dwindled
in strength, but at least 22 people have been killed, including
five who died in the ethnic fighting less than a dozen miles from
the premier Masai Mara game reserve in Narok, police chief Patrick
Wambani said.
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