TLC: Archbishop Tutu Calls for Peace After Meeting With Kenyan Leaders
January 4, 2008

Archbishop Desmond Tutu began meeting with Kenyan politicians, including opposition leader Raila Odinga, on Jan. 3 as the country, normally one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous, continued its descent into violence and anarchy amid charges of ballot rigging in the recent presidential election.

Peace talks with Archbishop Tutu, a Nobel Laureate, began in hopes of ending the violence that has resulted in more than 300 deaths and as many as 75,000 people internally displaced, according to the Kenyan government. Earlier in the week a mob burned down an evangelical church where about 50 persons, mostly women and children, had sought sanctuary. The number of dead in the church fire is impossible to estimate. the rest