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Annan presses for Kenyan accord Fighting spreads in western Kenya
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Former UN chief Kofi Annan is due to hold further talks in Kenya to try to end the deadlock between President Mwai Kibaki and challenger Raila Odinga. Fighting has erupted in another town in western Kenya, say reports.
Mr Odinga accuses his rival of stealing December's presidential election and unrest has left at least 700 people dead and more than 200,000 homeless. Reports suggest at least nine people have been killed in brutal inter-tribal bloodshed in Naivasha. Gangs of youths blocked the main road.
Mr Annan has urged an inquiry into what he calls gross human rights abuses. The town is about 60km (37 miles) south of Nakuru - also the scene of recent fighting - and sits on the main road between Nakuru and the capital Nairobi.
Tribal violence spread to Nakuru, Kenya's fourth biggest city, this week with at least 30 deaths since Thursday. Former UN chief Kofi Annan has been holding talks to try to end the month-long election deadlock in Kenya.
Violence between the rival Luo and Kikuyu communities there eased after the imposition of a night-time curfew. He was meeting opposition leader Raila Odinga in Nairobi on Sunday.
Hundreds of people are on the move, forced from their homes by the fighting and the threat of violence. Mr Annan visited the violence-racked Rift Valley on Saturday, and later said he had seen tragic, heart-wrenching scenes, and "gross and systematic abuse of human rights".
Many have sheltered in churches, others have packed their belongings on to buses and trucks and taken to the road - anything to get out of Nakuru, the BBC's Adam Mynott reports. Mr Odinga accuses his rival, President Mwai Kibaki, of stealing December's presidential election.
First-hand experience Unrest has left at least 750 people dead and about a quarter of a million homeless.
While details of his schedule on Sunday are still unclear, Mr Annan will go into his next talks armed with first-hand experience of the alleged abuses, our correspondent adds. Hacked to death
On Saturday, he visited areas where some of the worst post-election violence took place. The fighting in Naivasha is thought to have broken out late on Saturday, says the BBC's Adam Mynott in Nairobi.
Boarding a plane shortly after first light, he flew to Eldoret in Rift Valley. Reports are confused but he says at least nine people are feared dead - hacked to death by mobs with machetes. Vehicles and buildings have been set on fire.
He said afterwards that he had seen tragic, heart-wrenching scenes in camps for displaced people, of whom there are many tens of thousands. class="" href="/1/hi/world/africa/7211878.stm">Press despair at crisis
He spoke to some who had lost relatives and whose homes had been destroyed. Police fired over the heads of youths blocking the main road.
Some of those fleeing the violence have taken shelter in some of the horticultural farms around Naivasha, our correspondent says.
The area's huge horticulture and flower-growing industry employs more than 20,000 people, and supplies a third of Europe's cut flowers.
Further north, Kenya's fourth biggest city Nakuru has also been the scene of deadly violence between rival Luo and Kikuyu communities.
At least 30 people have been killed since Thursday and scores of people were injured in clashes between fighters armed with machetes, spears and bows and arrows.
There were no reports of further fighting from Nakuru on Sunday. But the ruins of torched buildings smouldered, and a reporter for news agency AFP said bodies lay in the city's deserted slums.
Annan call
Meanwhile, further south in Nairobi, Mr Annan has embarked on a sixth day of talks aimed at mediating a solution to the crisis.
He met Mr Odinga, after meeting Mr Kibaki on Saturday.
HAVE YOUR SAY The best way to diffuse the ethnic tension in the country is for politicians from the two divides to preach peace Philip Langat, KenyaSend us your commentsOn Saturday, he visited Eldoret in the Rift Valley, scene of some of the worst post-election violence took place and spoke to refugees living in camps.
"We saw gross and systematic abuse of human rights, of fellow citizens and it is essential that the facts be established and those responsible held to account," he said."We saw gross and systematic abuse of human rights, of fellow citizens and it is essential that the facts be established and those responsible held to account," he said.
The former UN secretary-general said people who had been injured and abused must be compensated.
Fundamental changes, he added, were needed in Kenya to prevent a repetition of inter-ethnic violence.Fundamental changes, he added, were needed in Kenya to prevent a repetition of inter-ethnic violence.
"We cannot accept that periodically, every five years or so, this sort of incident takes place and no-one is held to account," he said."We cannot accept that periodically, every five years or so, this sort of incident takes place and no-one is held to account," he said.
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