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Churchill
Otieno
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WRITINGS
BY CHURCHILL OTIENO
Kenya’s
journalists face mounting physical attacks
JOURNALISTS
in Kisumu, Kenya's third largest city, are increasingly becoming
the targets of physical violence by the police as well as youth
gangs backing political parties. In a number of incidents in the
past two years, reporters have been beaten, their equipment broken,
their notebooks and films confiscated and their vehicles smashed.
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‘Kosovo’ in the bowels of Kenya's Great Rift Valley
THE
Marakwet/Pokot boundary marked by the Kerio River on the bed of
the Rift Valley is pregnant with tension and awash with suspicion.
The Marakwet feel vengeful and vulnerable, the Pokot feel stigmatised
and defamed.
Press
Coverage of Civil Wars in Africa: Catalyst or Pacifier?
IN the
last quarter of the 20th century, Africa reasserted its image as
an active volcano, erupting every so often from different points.
Few factors have been common in all cases, a major one being the
ethnic or tribal shapes that almost all the wars took. Quickly,
a picture of Africa being strife-striken by its own ethnic discord
was painted Worldwide, thanks to correspondents from within and
without. Press stories painted pictures of one tribe annihilating
the other, one ethnic group meting massacre on the other.
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