Killing of Kenyan MP overshadows mediation efforts (another MP)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Killing of Kenyan MP overshadows mediation efforts
Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:12pm EST

By David Lewis

ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - A police officer in Kenya shot
dead an opposition legislator on Thursday, the second killed
in a week, triggering fatal protests and interrupting talks
to try to end more than a month of violence.

Warning of catastrophe, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said he would
travel to Nairobi on Friday from an African Union summit in
neighboring Ethiopia to help his predecessor Kofi Annan, who
has been trying to mediate an end to the crisis.

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Fresh protests erupted on Thursday after David Kimutai Too,
an opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) member of
parliament, was killed in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret.

Police commissioner Hussein Ali said Too's murder was a
"crime of passion". The traffic police officer responsible,
who had been arrested, had shot a fellow officer believed
to be his girlfriend along with the legislator, he said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSWAL22103220080131

[daleo]

1. Meanwhile, "peace-keepers" are in Afghanistan

Who will help out in these situations when peace-keeping troops (such as Canada's) are involved in war-making in Afghanistan?