Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Kenya during President Bush's upcoming trip to Africa, the president announced this morning.
Ms. Rice will "deliver a message directly to Kenya's leaders and people," Mr. Bush said in a speech this morning at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art.
"There must be an immediate halt to violence; there must be justice for the victims of abuse. And there must be a full return to democracy," Mr. Bush said.
Over 1,000 people have been killed in fighting between Kenyan tribes since a December vote that was contested by opposition leaders who said incumbent President Mwai Kibaki stole the election.
Ms. Rice will "support the work" of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who is supervising talks between President Kibaki and Raila Odinga, his election opponent.
— Jon Ward, White House correspondent, The Washington Times
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The U.N. model of liberal optimism, dysfunctional multilateralism or consesus without compliance, whatever you want to call it, will not work any better now than it did when Kofi Annan was head of the U.N. Either the world gets involved authoritively or they back out. Regional interference only offers exploitable vulnerabilities (corruption) which eventually ends up as a burden of survival on the population. We don't need another Somalia.
Posted by Larry Stone | February 15, 2008 1:57 AM