Just a quick update before I return to work. The Kenyan press has been going nuts lately with the news of an impending political solution. The news late last week was that ODM would no longer demand Kibaki's resignation and would cede to a power-sharing agreement. Details were to come early this week, and now we've learned that the negotiation team is heading off to some undisclosed location outside of the city to sequester themselves and hammer out a deal over the next 2-3 days. The anticipation is unreal. People are so tired of being in limbo, and I can't blame them.
There have been some other positive developments lately. The bans on public demonstrations and live broadcasting were both lifted this past week. I believe that the government's ability to control the media to that extent is one of the issues that will be brought up during the proposed discussions on constitutional reform. I'm really looking forward to those talks. If one good thing comes out of this disaster, it will hopefully be a push to reform the role of the President and the amount of power the person in that position is able to wield. I just wish that thousands of people didn't have to be killed and displaced in order for that to happen.
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