More than 1,000 people were killed and 300,000 displaced in bloodshed in Kenya after presidential elections on December 27, according to dpa. December 30, 2007: The Electoral Commission declares incumbent President Mwai Kibaki the winner of the elections. Challenger Raila Odinga accuses the government of electoral fraud. Serious turmoil erupts in the slums of the capital Nairobi and in the west of the country. January 1, 2008: Forty people, including women and children, seeking shelter from election violence in a church in western Kenya burned to death by an angry mob who set the place alight. January 4: South African Nobel Laureate and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu mediates in talks with Kibaki and Odinga. January 5: Aid organizations fear a humanitarian catastrophe. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls on Kibaki and Odinga to end the violence. January 8: Despite the ongoing violence, Kibaki names a new cabinet without the involvement of the main opposition party. January 8: Ghanaian President and African Union chairman John Kufour begins peace talks. January 23: Odinga announces he is prepared for power-sharing - Kibaki can stay in office but the opposition would appoint the head of government. Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan begins a mediation mission in Nairobi. January 31: Parliamentarian David Too becomes the second opposition politician to be killed in Eldoret, western Kenya. Two days earlier, parliamentarian Melitus Mugabe Were was killed. Both murders cause a new surge in the violence. February 1: Rival parties agree to Annan's offer to mediate a plan to end the violence, with arrangements to be made within 14 days. February 26: Annan announces direct talks with the two sides after the government backtracks on concessions already made and the opposition threatens new demonstrations. February 28: Kibaki and Odinga sign a power-sharing agreement.
