Kenya's opposition party on Saturday looked to a new strategy of economic boycotts and strikes over the disputed presidential election, abandoning protests that left more than 20 people dead in three days, most from police bullets, according to AP. Two more people were killed overnight, both in ethnic clashes. The U.S. ambassador, citing «many factors and underlying grievances,» compared Kenya's violence to the 1968 race riots in the United States. At a town hall meeting Friday for Americans in Nairobi, Ambassador Michael Ranneberger said there was «a lot of cheating on both sides» in the Dec. 27 elections that pitted President Mwai Kibaki against opposition leader Raila Odinga. Without the rigging, Odinga would have won by 120,000 votes or just 1.5 percent, Ranneberger said in a conference call with the Washington D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
