For about 18 months, more than a half of million people from the Ugandan area have been displaced after post-election violence forced them from their homes.
Some estimates said that more than 650,000 Kenyans and Ugandans were displaced after a chaotic dispute following the 2007 presidential elections.
Displaced in Kenya: Missing Compensation
Published December 11, 2009
Jordan Wilson, Pulitzer Student Fellow
Justin Atemi was a former camp supervisor for the Kenya Red Cross. He oversaw three different camps in the Eldoret area, included what was the largest single IDP camp in Kenya. Here, he talks about the problems with government-promised compensation. The Kenya government pledged financial support to Kenyan IDPs, but -- as Atemi points out -- there are many flaws in the system.
It was a run Sara Mudhoui wants to forget.
The chase pitted her and her family against machine gun-toting looters and murderers who ruthlessly set ablaze everything in sight.
I tried to ignore the gauze wrapped around her battered finger. The normally white cloth had faded pink, indicative of days of dried blood coated in dirt.
Student Fellow
For six and a half years, Jordan Wilson reveled in the hustle and bustle world of daily newspapers. It was the byline that first attracted him. Then the awards. Then the internships. Once all that...
