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snurri ([personal profile] snurri) wrote2008-02-28 12:12 pm
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Kenya Agreement Signed

For a while there it didn't look like this was going to happen.

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That's President Kibaki on the left, Odinga on the right, with Annan looking on.

The country seemed to let out a collective hooray as Mwai Kibaki, the president, and Raila Odinga, the top opposition leader, sat down at a desk in front of the president’s office, with a bank of television cameras rolling, and signed an agreement that creates a powerful prime minister position for Mr. Odinga and splits cabinet positions between the government and the opposition.

It seems clear that things are a long way from good, but this is a start.

*Photo by Simon Maina/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images

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[identity profile] devilwrites.livejournal.com 2008-02-29 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Scalzi is hysterical. :)
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