Today, August 8, Kenyans are once again going to the polls to vote for President and other officials. The BBC article I hastily read this morning indicates that some bad things have already happened leading up to voting day.

     We will return to Kenya the last week of October as we have planned to do a training event in

Lokichoggio, located in the extreme NW of the country, for refugee women and pastors who live in the Kakuma Camp.

 

     Renee and I were in Kenya in early Jan. 2008 when election violence stemming from the Dec. '07elections was ongoing. I was pulled out of a training event to go to the Tigoni Police Dept. compound so I could help register people who were fleeing there from the threats they had received. They were of the wrong tribe and someone or some parties in their area made it known they would be killed or harmed if they did not leave. Many.of those folks hailed from western Kenya and were in the area employed at a tea estate.

 

     I will never forget the look of sheer terror that was on the faces of those

folks as I spoke to them and got all info required to register them. To this good day it is hard for me to believe just how many thousands of people crammed into that small area.

 

     So let us pray things will indeed be different this year for the sake of the nation. E Africa needs a stable Kenya.

Uncle