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Kenya opposition brushes aside unity offer
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jan 05, 2008 03:57pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, January 5, 2008 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's president is ready to form a "government of national unity" to help resolve disputed elections that caused deadly riots, the government said Saturday, as police and residents battled with guns and machetes in a Nairobi slum.
But the president's opposition said the offer changed nothing and only internationally mediated talks would end a crisis that has killed at least 300 people and forced 250,000 from their homes.
"My position has not changed. We want a negotiated settlement. Our starting point is that Kibaki is there illegally. He should not come to the negotiating table as the president," opposition leader Raila Odinga told reporters.
President Mwai Kibaki made his offer for a unity government to Jendayi Frazer, the leading U.S. diplomatic for Africa, according to the director of the presidential news service, Isaiya Kabira. |
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