Kenyan crisis talks set to tackle tough political issues
AFP, February, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) — Kenya's feuding sides were Tuesday set to discuss disputed elections that sparked the ongoing crisis in which more than 1,000 people have died and 300,000 have been displaced across the country.
The talks resume a day after Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's chief apartheid-era negotiator, pulled out after the government rejected his bid to help broker crisis talks, accusing him of favouring the opposition.
Former UN chief and talks mediator Kofi Annan said he was still searching for a mediator, but warned that the current phase of talks is expected to be tough since it ventures into politics, the crux of the dispute.
On Tuesday "we begin our work on the political issues. The crisis arising out of the December 2007 elections, that is going to take hard negotiations, understandably give and take," Annan told reporters.
But the focal point of most of ...