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Kenya: Media Being Silenced As Political Crisis Intensifies

AllAfrica.com, Washington
A continuing ban on live broadcasts and new death threats to journalists in Kenya are silencing media reports on the country’s escalating political crisis

The organisations say the ban harms the ability of journalists to cover Kenya’s unfolding political crisis, and that “the situation is worse than the government wants the public and the world to believe.” According to the Media Institute, nearly 1,500 people have died and more than 250,000 have fled their homes.

Autosmiler has posted a series of text messages from her friend Emmanuel Leina Tasur, a Kenyan Village Volunteer host, with news regarding Kericho, Transmara, Nakuru, Naivasha, Kisumu, Nyeri, and Nyahururu. Although brief in their transmission, they somehow say so much.

Thanks to the internet, I found the human interest angle on Kenya I had been looking for in all the wrong places. The link has always been right here.

KenyaUnlimited is a webring of Kenyan blog posts. Just beginning to dive in, I can say that Gukira provides a beautifully poetic expression of emotion, struggle and desire. I highly recommend it. Thinker’s Room posts a chronological insider account in “What Really Happened, Part I: Genesis” and “What Really Happened, Part 2: Exodus” complete with illegally taken photographs. These barely scratch the surface. I’ll be reading for a while and invite you to do the same…