A Kenyan man sits in the cab of a destroyed truck used as a makeshift roadblock while a tire burns on the roof, as he and others enforce the roadblock in Kisumu, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. The town of Kisumu is now almost completely ethnically cleansed of Kikuyus, and mobs armed with makeshift weapons erect burning roadblocks and search for the few Kikuyu targets remaining. 8:51 a.m. ET, 1/30/08
Kenyan police beat up a man in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 18 January 2008. Kenyan police shot dead five protestors Friday on the last day of rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's re-election before the opposition launches a threatened boycott of government-linked companies. The fresh violence came as the United Nations said former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan would fly to Kenya on Tuesday to help mediate in the political crisis.
Opposition supporters burn vehicles and block the road during a protest in Kisumu, western Kenya, after a police officer shot dead an opposition legislator on Thursday.
Members of the Kenyan army patrol a street during ethnic clashes, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 in Naivasha, Kenya. Gangs armed with machetes and bows and arrows burned and hacked to death members of a rival tribe in western Kenya Sunday, as the death toll from the latest explosion of violence over disputed presidential elections rose to at least 69. Houses were blazing in the center of Naivasha, a tourist gateway.
Kenyan men from the Luo tribe armed with machetes and rocks enforce a makeshift roadblock, searching passing vehicles for Kikuyus trying to flee the town in order to kill them, on the main road to the Ugandan border near the airport in Kisumu, Kenya, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. In Kisumu on Monday angry young men blocked roads out of the town, set some houses and buses ablaze, and one driver was burned alive in his minibus, according to a witness. 
A Kenyan man holds his son as he and other members of his family flee violence in their neighborhood during ethnic clashes in the central Kenyan town of Nakuru 25 January 2008. Ethnic clashes killed at least 15 people in Kenya's western Rift Valley, police said today, dashing hopes of an end to weeks of unrest sparked by disputed presidential polls.
Kenyan women and children sit in the back of a police truck as they flee during ethnic clashes, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, Naivasha, Kenya. Gangs armed with machetes and bows and arrows burned and hacked to death members of a rival tribe in western Kenya Sunday, as the death toll from the latest explosion of violence over disputed presidential elections rose to at least 69. Houses were blazing in the center of Naivasha, a tourist gateway.
A truck transporting displaced Kenyans fleeing the city drives out of the town of Nakuru, Kenya, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. Gunfire erupted in the town and young men vowed revenge as the death toll from two days of bloodshed in western Kenya's main town reached at least 25, including 16 charred bodies unloaded at the morgue from the back of a truck.
Kenyan women carrying their furniture, arrive at a church where dozens of families who had their houses burned down, or fled for safety, are now living, in Nakuru, Kenya, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. Gunfire erupted in the town and young men vowed revenge as the death toll from two days of bloodshed in western Kenya's main town reached at least 25, including 16 charred bodies unloaded at the morgue from the back of a truck.
NAKURU, KENYA - JANUARY 21: Kenyan Internally Displaced People (IDP's) stay in the show ground stadium on January 21, 2008 in Nakuru, Kenya. International mediators have attempted to unlock political gridlock in the East African nation which has lost 600 people in severe post-election violence amid allegations that the incumbent president manipulated the December elections.
Internally displaced Kenyans from the Luo tribe, receive food from aid organizations as they gather around the Limuru police station, in Limuru, near Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday Jan. 31, 2008. An opposition lawmaker was shot and killed by a police officer in the Rift Valley Thursday, the second opposition lawmaker to be killed this week in a country that has been gripped by ethnic fighting since last month's disputed presidential election.
Internally displaced children from the Luo tribe, displaced by post election violence, line up to receive food from aid organizations at the Limuru police station in Limuru, near Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday Jan. 31, 2008.
Displaced Kenyan children receive food from an aid group inside the International Trade Fair at Jamhuri Park where many displaced Kenyans have been living in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Some displaced people who had been living in the park have returned to their homes but many others remain, fearing attacks if they return to their neighborhoods. 
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