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Kenya 2008: Nairobi Gallery 1
Kenya has been among
Africa's economic and political 'successes' since independence in 1963.
Nairobi
is one of the continent's premier cities. I arrived two days after the
national presidential elections on December 27, 2008.
The
results
were
angrily disputed
and riots broke out all over
the country. Some
of the
images (#40-52) here reveal the bad news and the presence of riot police
on the streets of Nairobi. From January to April the violence caused about
1500
deaths nationwide and
displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Four months after the elections,
the political rivals finally settled on how to share power in an unfriendly
coalition government.
Also see the Kenya Kibera and Methare
North photo galleries to
see the after-effects of the riots in the slums near Nairobi.
Read the stories about gay Kenya
