AU chief meets political leaders in Kenya crisis talks

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

NAIROBI (AFP) — African Union chief John Kufuor shuttled between Kenyan leaders Wednesday to try to resolve political deadlock following post-election violence that left 600 dead and displaced a quarter of a million.

President Mwai Kibaki, whose re-election 11 days ago triggered the unrest, denied there was any national crisis after a first meeting with Kufuor.

"Kibaki insisted that the country is not in a crisis and the government is operational," an official at the president's office told AFP.

Kibaki then travelled to western Kenya to visit displaced victims of recent clashes before meeting Kufuor again in Nairobi late Wednesday.

Kufuor, the president of Ghana, spent several hours in separate talks with opposition leader Raila Odinga, who claims he...