Kenyan leaders agree to heal nation amid push to end crisis

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

NAIROBI (AFP) — Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and opposition chief Raila Odinga on Tuesday agreed to unite and heal the nation that was nearly destroyed by deadly post-election violence, the presidency said.

The pair held talks in the president's downtown office for the first time since last Thursday's signing of a power-sharing accord that ended two months of bloody turmoil.

They "agreed to work together towards uniting all Kenyans and accelerating the healing process by holding meetings with different communities with a view to ensuring that wananchi (citizens) live together peacefully," Kibaki's office said in a statement.

Under the accord, which has been welcomed by Kenyans after post-electoral bloodshed, Odinga is set to become the east African...