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Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights has released its report into January’s post-election violence. Entitled On the Brink of the Precipice, the report (promised to appear on the KNCHR website shortly) concludes that some of the violence was premeditated, financed by local politicians and business people, and included crimes against humanity. Naming planners and perpetrators, and making recommendations on changing [...]

Here is somebody who can give us hope. Since New Year’s Day, Kenyan environmental and womens rights activist, parliamentarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai has made a series of powerful statements about the ongoing crisis in her country.
On the Green Belt Movement’s website, she helps to explain what is happening by reminding us [...]