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 an IDP: Post-Election Violence
Published December 12, 2009
Jordan Wilson, Pulitzer Student Fellow
Tony is an IDP located in Eldoret. He wanted his last name withheld because of the nature of information he revealed. Here, Tony gives graphic and vivid details of the first night of post-election violence. He is a member of the Kikuyu tribe. When an opposing tribe attacked Kikiyus, they launched a violent counter-attack.
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...
