(31 Jan 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Nairobi city centre
2. Cars on street
3. Various of people walking on the streets
4. Wide of newspaper kiosk
5. Close up of newspaper headline reading: (English), "Post-poll violence: US threatens to intervene"
6. Close up of newspaper headline reading: (English) "Faces that hold the key to Our Future"
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Okullo, Nairobi resident, Vox pop:
"It has affected everybody, except the people now who are in the parliament, they have not been affected, but the people on the ground are completely affected bad."
8. Wide of bus pulling up to bus stop
9. Wide of Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan with government and opposition negotiators at the Serena Hotel.
10. Annan talking with opposition negotiators.
11. Kofi Annan and negotiation team walking into the Serena Hotel
12. Various of dialogue session meeting as delegates sit down
STORYLINE:
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan continued negotiation efforts to resolve the political standoff in Kenya, but said it will take a year just to settle on a plan for resolving the deep-rooted problems that caused anger over stolen votes to turn in murderous hate between neighbours of decades.
The international community is bringing to bear on President Mwai Kibaki and his chief rival, opposition leader Raila Odinga, to share power to end the crisis, by threatening to withdraw aid funding.
Kenyans are involved in "ethnic cleansing," the lead United States diplomat for Africa said on Wednesday, in reference to the post election turmoil that has forced thousands from their homes perhaps for good and claimed more than 800 lives.
Jendayi Frazer also said that Kenya's leaders were not doing enough to halt the violence and that the US was reviewing possible cuts to its hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.
Much of the violence has pitted other tribes, including opposition leader Raila Odinga's Luo, against President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu.
Kikuyus, Kenya's largest ethnic group, have long been resented for their dominance of Kenya's economy and politics, but poor Kikuyu are among the shanty town dwellers who have been left out of the country's economic boom.
Odinga accuses Kibaki of stealing the December 27 election, and international election monitors say the count was rigged.
Meanwhile, the streets of Nairobi appeared calm on Thursday morning as Kenyans made their way through the city centre.
Morning newspapers made reference to the uneasy calm, carrying headlines reading "Post-poll violence: US threatens to intervene" and "Faces that hold the key to Our Future" - the latter in reference to the meeting being held on Thursday at the Serena Hotel between government and opposition negotiators, being overseen by Annan.
Separately on Thursday, Kibaki was attending the African Union summit, and confidently took his place among the continent's leaders despite challenges that he didn't rightly win the Kenyan presidency and as deadly violence continued in his home country.
More than 40 heads of state were expected to attend the three-day meeting in the Ethiopian capital, but it was Kibaki's arrival that was most anticipated.
Odinga was not invited to the summit, his supporters said.
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