KENYA-POLITICS-UNREST-INTERNET

KENYA-POLITICS-UNREST-INTERNET

TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Reuben KYAMA, Thomas MORFIN
A member of a youth corps campaigning for peace performs an act at the sprawling Kibera slum in Nairobi on July 28, 2014, reminiscent of deadly ethnic violence that followed the disputed results of the 2007 general elections, that were particularly intensive at the slum leaving scores dead. Kenya takes pride in being a union of “42 tribes”, but a string of attacks in towns on its volatile coast has exposed bitter and explosive ethnic tensions linked to politics. “There has been a surge of dangerous speech,” said 26-year-old Nanjira Sambuli, a project leader of Umati, an online crowd sourcing project monitoring hate speech, based in Nairobi’s sleek iHub offices, the heart of its tech-savvy community. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA