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.
Interview with Crisis Response Group in Kenya
Published December 9, 2009
Jordan Wilson, Pulitzer Student Fellow
John Seii is the director of the Crisis Response Group, an NGO based in Eldoret. Seii's group was largely involved in peace talks immediately following the outbreak of post-election violence on Dec. 27th, 2007. The CRG tried to mend tensions between the two main clans involved in the violence: the Kalenjin and the Kikuyu. Eldoret was one of the most violent regions in the Rift Valley and it also saw the single largest mass killing ever in Kenya due to post-election violence.
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...
