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Nairobi: Clashes between opposition supporters and the Kenyan police have continued with contention over the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
Three people have already died amid the protests in the past 24 hours.
Police fired at hundreds of opposition supporters with teargas after they blocked roads during the three day nationwide demonstration.
"My father was shot as he stood in front of our house. The
police were shooting indiscriminately, targeting anyone on
sight. My father was shot in the stomach," Alphonse Otieno said from the slum district Kisumu's.
The demonstrations were declared by opposition leader, Raila Odinga, who believes that the December 27 election was rigged with Kibaki ‘stealing’ the election.
Kibaki has, in turn, made the same accusations about Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party.
Both parties have accused the other of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
U.N Secretary, Kofi Annan, was due to arrive in Kenya this week.
Annan was due to head a team of “Emininent Africans” who would aggressively seek peace in the region but had fallen ill. A new arrival date has not been set.
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