Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 25, 2008 / 06:31 am
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was scheduled to start a mediation mission in Kenya, even as violence flared once more, Vatican Radio reports.
An organization of African churches has also urged Kenyans to seek peace.
Despite these efforts at peace, dozens of protestors set fire to a government office building in a fight following an opposition-organized memorial service for victims of the violence that followed the disputed December 27 general election. Cases of rape and sexual violence against women have doubled in some areas of Kenya, as perpetrators in gangs travel unpunished.
Notre Dame Sister Mary O’Brien, speaking from Nairobi, talked to Vatican Radio about the crisis.