Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Kenya in Crisis Day 20: Humanitarian Crisis?




Some displaced families are going hungry. Rowdy mobs are stopping villagers from taking food to the starving women and children whose property has been looted from the tea estates where they were working. These are third generation workers being evicted in retaliatory attacks. Someone should provide enough security so that the villagers can feed these people without fear.

A few days ago there was a food shortage in Oyugis a village a few hundred miles west of Nairobi.

I think for Malaria meds,it is not expensive just some Fansinder and syrups for the younger ones which is about $30.with food we need more and you can give us what you for buying maize flour and transporting them to Oyugis.l think that one could do with air time i can not say much but the one which i get will help me. Andrius,i have just talked with Samwel and he told me to tell you that he is very sick and i think that i am going there in Rusinga right now from Homa-Bay just to see him and to know His condition.I will let you know the report about
about Sam illness.


Mutula Kilonzo narrates in an interview the attack on his farm in Molo, his conversation with a Father in Eldoret on the church burning, the plight of 15000 displaced persons camped at Kapsabet Police Station while surrounded by armed raiders, the destruction of bridges near the Police Station and the eventual evacuation of the displaced persons by the Army, the actions of raiders at Baraton University. The presence of uncollected bodies on tea estates and farms, the blockage of roads. His belief that some of his clients may be involved in perpetrating the violence.

The reports from yesterday were conveying that there was some sort of normalcy being restored in Kenya. Given what I am finding, I have to disagree with that assessment. The opposition leader will hold several rallies this week including one today and we should be able to guage where the country is at after they are through...

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