happy new year

NYT: protests, riots, and violence following the election in Kenya
"After three days of rioting, some streets in Nairobi are beginning to look like war zones, with trucks of soldiers rumbling through a wasteland of burned cars and abandoned homes, their tires crunching over broken glass. Gangs of young men have built roadblocks between neighborhoods of the Kikuyus, Mr. Kibaki’s tribe, and those of the Luos, the tribe of Raila Odinga, the top opposition leader who narrowly lost the election. The nomad’s land between them is often a single lane of pot-holed asphalt, patrolled by thugs with huge rocks in their hands."

NYT: campaigning in iowa (where a Luo descendant is also running for president)

NYT: protesting brings perks to Islamists jailed in Morocco