Thousands Still Stuck In Kenyan Displacement Camps

Up to 80,000 Kenyans who were displaced during the tribal clashes that followed the disputed 2007 presidential elections are still stuck in makeshift camps around the country, a respected Kenyan newspaper has said. The Daily Nation newspaper also reports that at least 220,000 other people still subsist on relief food.  The figures contradict a recent government statement that its resettlement programme had largely succeeded and that only 7,690 people remained in three camps in the country’s Rift Valley province. Over 1500 Kenyans were killed and 350,000 displaced in violence that erupted after opposition leader Raila Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of rigging his way to reelection. The two rivals later formed a power sharing government that retained Kibaki as president with Odinga as prime minister. [PE]