(26 Jan 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Nairobi
2. Mid of traffic on road
3. Various of people walking on street
4. Close-up of Saturday Nation Daily Newspaper headlines reading(English): "Nakuru erupts", pan to Saturday Standard Daily Newspaper headlines reading (English): "Army helps out as Nakuru erupts. Annan's team sustains talks"
STORYLINE
The mood was tense on streets of Nairobi on Saturday after fierce fighting erupted in Nakuru, Kenya's Rift Valley, on Friday.
The ethnic clashes were the latest to hit the country following Kenya's disputed presidential election.
On Saturday, Kenyan daily newspapers' headline read: "Nakuru erupts" and "Army helps out as Nakuru erupts. Annan's team sustains talks"
In Nakuru, western Kenya's main town, sporadic gunshots crackled on Saturday and refugees forced from their homes threatened to seek revenge for Friday's street battles.
Police brought 16 horribly charred bodies to the city mortuary in Nakuru, some missing limbs.
Some appeared to have other wounds as well.
Police would not say where they came from.
The trouble in Nakuru began late on Thursday, when people heard that Kibaki was insisting he was Kenya's "duly elected president," a church official said.
Local reporters said the fighting pitted people from President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu people against groups of Kalenjin, Luhya and Luo, who support opposition leader Raila Odinga.
The other ethnic groups' resentment of the Kikuyu, who have long dominated politics and the economy in Kenya, has spilled over since the election.
As the areas in the west blazed, politicians in the capital remained far apart on the key question of who won the December 27 vote.
Odinga accuses Kibaki of stealing the elections, and international and local observers say the vote count was rigged.
Riots and protests following the announcement quickly turned to ethnic clashes.
At least 685 people have been killed since the disputed election and some 255,000 people have been forced from their homes across the country.
The Rift Valley has seen some of the worst post-election violence.
But Nakuru, its provincial capital and Kenya's fourth largest city of about 300-thousand people from different ethnic group, had been untouched until Friday.
On Thursday, Kibaki and Odinga held talks for the first time since the election, with former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as mediator.
They are under international pressure to find a way to share power, but immediately after Thursday's meeting, Kibaki made clear he believed his position as head of state was not negotiable.

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