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Kenya police, protesters face off


Mail & Guardian Online: "Kenyan police clashed with opposition members on Thursday in a second day of unrest over President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, and the opposition said police had killed seven.

In opposition strongholds in the capital, Nairobi, and the western town of Kisumu, police fired tear gas and bullets on the second of three days of banned rallies called by opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)."

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