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snurri ([personal profile] snurri) wrote2008-12-30 03:24 pm
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  • kenya,
  • news,
  • politics

Two Articles

Kenya, one year later:

The tensions that were laid bare during one of the darkest moments in Kenya's history are still festering, a year after its election on Dec. 27, 2007 unleashed weeks of ethnic violence that killed more than 1,000 people.

The evidence is everywhere: in the displacement camps where tens of thousands of people still live; in the divided towns where ethnic groups had lived side-by-side since independence from Britain in 1963; and in growing disillusionment with a coalition government accused of ignoring the roots of the crisis.


I also found this article about activists in Miami moving homeless families into foreclosed homes interesting:

Rameau is an activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami's empty streets: He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes.

“We're matching homeless people with peopleless homes,” he said with a grin.

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