Working to track the violent crimes in Kenya

  1. Posted on Thursday 10 January 2008 - 00:24
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    The post election period in Kenya has seen a number of violent crimes take place. In trying to monitor the situation there are a number of initiatives working to document events on the ground.

    The aim is to not only have a better understanding of what has/is happening but to see how we can spread the information.

    Erik let me know about a new website called Ushahidi.com (witness in Swahili).

    The people involved in putting it together:

    Ory Okolloh - www.kenyanpundit.com
    David Kobia - www.kobiainteractive.com & www.mashada.com
    Erik Hersman - www.whiteafrican.com
    Daudi Were - www.mentalacrobatics.com/think
    Juliana Chebet - www.afromusing.com/blog
    Ashok Hariharan
    Riyaz Bachani - www.skunkworks-ke.blogspot.com

    This is certainly a useful tool so please pass the word.
    I also extend my compliments to the team.

    Ben

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  1. Posted on Thursday 10 January 2008 00:26
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    Ben White
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    Lid sinds April 2007
    Amsterdam

    Example of the reports posted online:

    After a lull in clashes that erupted following President Mwai Kibaki´s disputed re-election at Dec. 27 polls, Kibaki named 17 ministers on Tuesday - prompting further protests.

    Witnesses said one man was shot dead in Kisumu, a western stronghold of opposition leader Raila Odinga, where hundreds of rioters built burning barricades and stoned cars.

    Slum residents in Nairobi said opposition supporters also took to the streets, some of them brandishing machetes.

    "They are going wild. They are very angry about the new cabinet," Onyango Apudo, a boxer who lives in the capital´s sprawling Mathare shanty-town, told Reuters.

    http://www.ushahidi.com/index.asp
    www.africa-interactive.net