By DPA
Nairobi : At least ten people were killed as fresh violence erupted in Kenya, with angry mobs torching dozens of houses in the wave of violence that has plagued the East African nation after last month’s allegedly flawed elections, media reported Monday.
The violence comes a day before former UN secretary general Kofi Annan is set to arrive in the country to jump start a new round of mediation to find a political solution to the conflict.
At least three people were hacked to death Sunday in ethnic violence in the Mathare slum in capital Nairobi as arson and rioting continued in three other cities over the weekend, the independent Daily Nation reported.
More than 600 people have been killed in the wave of bloodletting that has pitted slum-dwellers against police as well as Kenyans against one another in deep-rooted ethnic tensions simmering below the surface for years.
The opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) led by Raila Odinga accuses that President Mwai Kibaki stole the win in last month’s hotly-contested vote and has vowed to continue mass action until the votes are recounted or Kibaki steps down.
The polls triggered violence that has pitted Odinga’s Luo tribe against Kibaki’s Kikuyu ethnic group, with some of the country’s 42 other ethnic groups linking up with one side or the other.
The European Union aid chief Louis Michel had called Saturday for an end to the protests.