Kenya at a crossing point

From our Oakseed contact…

My contacts tell me that Kibera Laini Saba side is calm. I am aware though that Kibera 42; adjacent to Ngong Road is where skirmishes are going right now. Kilimani and arpound Yaya centre have seen street battles. I am concerned that more venting of anger may be experienced tonight in the slums with more houses being torched after the meeting aborts. I see us responding to a huge humanitarian crisis. We are in fact late for our people in Kibera and late for the over 250,000 displaced internally. No access to the slums due to tension. The Red Cross is overstretched. My thoughts go out to the churches outside Nairobi in the North Rift my home where people have taken refuge to escape ethnic cleansing without food and blankets. Road blocks have been erected along the major Kenya-Uganda hihway and vehicles are being stopped and people asked to produce IDs which of course betrays ethnicity. This is a repeat of Rwanda if we don’t stop it right now. Please pray for my beloved country.

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