Kenyan violence ‘ethnic cleansing’

THE top US envoy to Africa called the violence in Kenya “ethnic cleansing” and said yesterday Washington was reviewing its hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the country.

Jendayi Frazer said neither President Mwai Kibaki nor his chief rival, opposition leader Raila Odinga, is doing enough to stop the bloodshed that has claimed more than 800 lives since the December 27 election.

Ms Frazer said the violence she saw during a visit earlier this month to the country’s western Rift Valley pitted the Kalenjin, who support Odinga and his Luo people, against Kibaki’s Kikuyu people.