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Kenya rivals agree peace deal
Kenya rivals agree peace deal Will it last?
Kenyan police officers Friday patrol a camp in Eldoret where some 15,000 people have taken shelter.
The first three items, to be completed within a 15-day period, are: stopping the violence and restoring fundamental rights; taking measures to address the humanitarian crisis; and promoting "reconciliation, healing and restoration," Annan said.
The fourth item, which could take up to a year, aims for a resolution to the political crisis, the former secretary-general said.
The two sides also signed an 18-point plan to implement the promise to end to violence, Annan said.
The plan includes an agreement to disband illegal armed groups, to refrain from making "irresponsible and provocative" statements, and to hold joint meetings to promote peace and reconciliation. It also calls on police to end "brutality" and "excessive force."
The Kenyan Red Cross says the violence has claimed at least 863 lives and driven 261,000 from their homes since incumbent Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki claimed the December 27 election over Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga.
Representatives of both sides flanked Annan at the news conference, and echoed his calls to end the violence.
"We also expect the public to be a responsible public," said Musalia Mudavadi, an ODM member. "We are calling on the Kenyan people to uphold the rule of law, to make sure that incidents of violence -- revenge, retaliation -- are dealt with. "
He said the two sides have made substantial progress on the first agenda item of curbing violence.
"We expect everybody from public to police to other law enforcement agencies ... to be guided by rule of law," said Martha Karua, Kenya's minister of justice and constitutional affairs. "We can only enjoy our fundamental freedoms by respecting each others' rights."
Earlier Friday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern and sadness over the violence that has wracked Kenya.
Ban met with Kibaki on Thursday on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Earlier Friday, he met with Odinga in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Ban said he told both leaders that the violence, which has taken on ethnic overtones, "has to stop."
"This is unacceptable and intolerable in this modern world," he said. "You have lost already too much in terms of a national image," he said.
Eight people were killed in western Kenya in a revenge attack over the slaying of David Too, an opposition lawmaker. Some 100 men hacked six people to death and killed two with poisoned arrows on Thursday in the village Ikonge, some 380 kilometers (240 miles) west of the capital, Nairobi.
In a separate incident, the Associated Press reported that a mob of 3,000, armed with bows and arrows, spears, clubs and machetes, killed a police officer Friday in Too's home village.
Watch report on the political situation in Kenya. »
Don't MissAnnan suspended talks Thursday after Too's killing in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, the second opposition lawmaker killed in three days. Fellow Orange Democratic Movement lawmaker Mugabe Were was gunned down outside his Nairobi-area home on Tuesday.
It's not clear whether Too's death was connected to the ethnic violence. At least 120 homes were burned there, and at least two people were killed, Kenyan sources told CNN. Watch CNN's Zain Verjee show burned homes, people on the move »
Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department on Thursday announced a travel alert for Kenya and that it had authorized the relocation of all non-emergency U.S. personnel and diplomats' family members from Kisumu to Nairobi.
In addition, the United States was reviewing the hundreds of millions of dollars of humanitarian aid it sends to Kenya, while a travel ban was being considered against people the U.S. government concludes were responsible for the violence, said U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger.
"We will use the full weight of our consular rules and regulations to restrict visas to persons responsible for inciting and carrying out violence," he said. "We have told both sides." E-mail to a friend
- Story Highlights
- NEW: Kofi Annan announces deal to end political violence in Kenya
- NEW: Plan gives 15 days to end fighting, tackle humanitarian crisis, promote reconciliation
- NEW: Other issues given a one-year timetable to resolve
- Violence began after controversial December presidential election result
Kenyan police officers Friday patrol a camp in Eldoret where some 15,000 people have taken shelter. The first three items, to be completed within a 15-day period, are: stopping the violence and restoring fundamental rights; taking measures to address the humanitarian crisis; and promoting "reconciliation, healing and restoration," Annan said.
The fourth item, which could take up to a year, aims for a resolution to the political crisis, the former secretary-general said.
The two sides also signed an 18-point plan to implement the promise to end to violence, Annan said.
The plan includes an agreement to disband illegal armed groups, to refrain from making "irresponsible and provocative" statements, and to hold joint meetings to promote peace and reconciliation. It also calls on police to end "brutality" and "excessive force."
The Kenyan Red Cross says the violence has claimed at least 863 lives and driven 261,000 from their homes since incumbent Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki claimed the December 27 election over Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga.
Representatives of both sides flanked Annan at the news conference, and echoed his calls to end the violence.
"We also expect the public to be a responsible public," said Musalia Mudavadi, an ODM member. "We are calling on the Kenyan people to uphold the rule of law, to make sure that incidents of violence -- revenge, retaliation -- are dealt with. "
He said the two sides have made substantial progress on the first agenda item of curbing violence.
"We expect everybody from public to police to other law enforcement agencies ... to be guided by rule of law," said Martha Karua, Kenya's minister of justice and constitutional affairs. "We can only enjoy our fundamental freedoms by respecting each others' rights."
Earlier Friday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern and sadness over the violence that has wracked Kenya.
Ban met with Kibaki on Thursday on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Earlier Friday, he met with Odinga in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Ban said he told both leaders that the violence, which has taken on ethnic overtones, "has to stop."
"This is unacceptable and intolerable in this modern world," he said. "You have lost already too much in terms of a national image," he said.
Eight people were killed in western Kenya in a revenge attack over the slaying of David Too, an opposition lawmaker. Some 100 men hacked six people to death and killed two with poisoned arrows on Thursday in the village Ikonge, some 380 kilometers (240 miles) west of the capital, Nairobi.
In a separate incident, the Associated Press reported that a mob of 3,000, armed with bows and arrows, spears, clubs and machetes, killed a police officer Friday in Too's home village.
Watch report on the political situation in Kenya. » Don't MissAnnan suspended talks Thursday after Too's killing in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, the second opposition lawmaker killed in three days. Fellow Orange Democratic Movement lawmaker Mugabe Were was gunned down outside his Nairobi-area home on Tuesday.
It's not clear whether Too's death was connected to the ethnic violence. At least 120 homes were burned there, and at least two people were killed, Kenyan sources told CNN.
Watch CNN's Zain Verjee show burned homes, people on the move »Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department on Thursday announced a travel alert for Kenya and that it had authorized the relocation of all non-emergency U.S. personnel and diplomats' family members from Kisumu to Nairobi.
In addition, the United States was reviewing the hundreds of millions of dollars of humanitarian aid it sends to Kenya, while a travel ban was being considered against people the U.S. government concludes were responsible for the violence, said U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger.
"We will use the full weight of our consular rules and regulations to restrict visas to persons responsible for inciting and carrying out violence," he said. "We have told both sides." E-mail to a friend