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Odinga Calls Off Rallies, Will Try Negotiating

Kikuyu tribe flees western Kenya as death toll tops 600

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 7, 2008 12:20 PM CST

(Newser) – Kenyan opposition leader Rail Odinga called off his protest rallies today, trying to calm the nation as busloads of ethnic Kikuyu fled the western part of the country. So far at least 255,000 have been displaced, and 600 have been killed in ethnic-cleansing-style violence....   Read full story »

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