Terrifying mobs of young men armed with panga (machetes), rungus (wooden clubs) and bows and arrows stormed through the streets of Nakuru on Friday. The market town, the capital of Kenya's Rift Valley, has not witnessed scenes like this for many years, if ever.
It is about two and half hour's drive from Nairobi to Nakuru and as we came into the town on the main road we were confronted by a mob advancing down the tarmac.
A stone smashed a back-door window of our car, crashing against the head of my colleague Nawaz Shah, showering him with broken glass.
He was not badly hurt and our troubles were nothing compared to those of hundreds of people in the town who had been attacked or forced to abandon their homes.
Saturday,26.January.2008
