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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search January 29, 2008Kenyan Universities Remain Closed as Fighting WorsensNairobi, Kenya — Three private hostels rented by students at the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology were set on fire Monday by rioters, as violence flared again in Kenya, with tribal gangs attacking members of rival communities, in the post-election chaos that has engulfed the East African nation. The incident occurred in Kakamega, a town in western Kenya, about 250 miles from the capital, Nairobi. Armed with machetes and other crude weapons, the protesters used gasoline to set the buildings ablaze. The university’s deputy vice chancellor, Sibikike Makhanu, said nobody was hurt during the incident. “The university is still closed, and students should not be worried as the university had built new hostels inside the campus,” he said in a telephone interview. The buildings were owned by a local businessman. The new chaos has jeopardized plans to reopen the country’s universities soon. All remain closed, and Maseno University, which lies about 30 miles from Masinde Muliro, in Kisumu, has said it might not reopen until April. —Wachira Kigotho Posted on Tuesday January 29, 2008 | Permalink |Comments
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And yet the African Leadership is meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss nothing else but trivia such as AU leadership instead of focusing attention on this mayhem in Kenya! More so, AU needs to focus on governance and democracy issues that are very pertinent to Africa especially the need to enforce the two-term leadership term for the president and/or Prime Minister. It is the greed and the hold on absolute power that will continue to cause mayhem, coups and counter-coups, bad governace, corruption, economic mismanagement and meltdown and the total chaotic situation that prevails in Africa today! A preoccupation on political issues in Africa is contributing to stunted or no econiomic and industrial development in today’s knowledge economies. An overemphasis on and pre-occupation with politics and the blame game on western countries particularly the US and UK in Africa is proving disastrous to development-oriented initiatives! Africa must refocus and redirect energies for the total good of our countries and freedoms for African peoples instead of the self-serving and self- preservation, political hegemony and self- enrichmemnt of a few oligarchy.
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