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Kenya: Annan begins formal mediation talks
Former UN chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday opened formal mediation to try to end Kenya's post-election crisis.
- Agencies
- Published: 19:08 January 29, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
- Women wail outside the house of opposition lawmaker Mugabe Were in Nairobi where he was gunned down early on Tuesday.
Nairobi: Former UN chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday opened formal mediation to try to end Kenya's post-election crisis.
Annan opened the meeting in the Kenyan capital Nairobi
flanked by President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila
Odinga in a bid to pull together both sides to strike a
political deal and stanch violence threatening to spiral out of
control.
Western nations have urged both sides - who appear far
apart - to take the talks seriously or risk losing aid.
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