For a month now, violence has raged in Kenya over an unresolved presidential election and widespread accusations that the December vote was rigged for incumbent Mwai Kibaki. More than 850 people are dead, countless injured and driven from their homes.
The top American diplomat for Africa describes the violence as "ethnic cleansing."Â UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon is warning of catastrophe.
Until now Kenya had been, in many ways, the envy of Africa - a strong economy, a peaceful democracy. Now Kenya is in flames.
Listen to an On Point discussion about the crisis in Kenya.
What happened here? Why? And what can or should the world do?
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'"It's inhuman to ask somebody like me to go back to my 'real home land', I don't even know my real home land," said Nancy, a Kikuyu woman from the Eldoret area in western Kenya.'
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The Kikuyus are the country's largest tribe but in a minority in western Kenya, where people overwhelmingly voted in the December 27 presidential election for opposition leader Raila Odinga, from the Luo tribe, who lost to incumbent President Kwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu.
They don't know how too count is the basic problem.
They tho are working out the problem themselves, maybe in a couple of months or so I feel.