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Three Years after Peace, Many Victims Still Waiting for Homes in Kenya

   Michael Onyiego | Nairobi  February 24, 2011
   A  resident  of  Vumilia Eldoret Camp with family. Many residents have
   lived for three years in tents intended to last for six months.

Photo: VOA - M. Onyiego

   A  resident  of  Vumilia Eldoret Camp with family. Many residents have
   lived for three years in tents intended to last for six months.

   February  28th marks the three-year anniversary of the peace agreement
   which  ended  Kenya's  post-election chaos. But many are still waiting
   for help and a chance to begin their new lives.
   Three-year annivesary of peace agreement
   From  late  December, 2007 through February of 2008, the world watched
   as  a  country once praised for its stability proceeded to tear itself
   apart.
   A  dispute  between  rivals  President  Mwai  Kibaki and current Prime
   Minister  Raila  Odinga  quickly  engulfed  the entire nation, opening
   ethnic  fissures  which  left over 1,300 dead. For weeks, many Kenyans
   did  not  leave their homes. National highways were patrolled by armed
   militias  and  airplanes  bound  for  the  popular tourist destination
   arrived empty.
   The  crisis  raged  for nearly two months, until former United Nations
   Secretary  General Kofi Annan was able to unite the two opponents in a