President Mwai Kibaki commemorated yesterday the 1,000 people killed during Kenya's post-election crisis and urged parliament to enshrine into law a power-sharing deal intended to keep the peace.
Africa's top diplomat pushed Kenya's feuding parties to reach a speedy deal on Friday after the government agreed in principle to create a prime minister's post to help end a deadly post-election crisis.
Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga on Wednesday called off street protests that had been set to press the government to strike a power-sharing deal to end the country's post-election crisis.