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Tutu joins church-backed bid to end Kenya's violence

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu has arrived in Kenya to assist in a church-backed bid aimed at stemming the violent reaction to the country's presidential election results and reaching a peaceful outcome to the political crisis, reports Ecumenical News International. "I appeal to both leaders to meet and talk about points of disagreement," said Tutu on his arrival in Nairobi from South Africa on 3 February. The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town had said he was responding to a call by Mvume Dandala, a former leader of South Africa's Methodist Church and now general secretary of the Nairobi-based All Africa Conference of Churches who is among church leaders seeking to play a peacemaking role. Violence erupted after it was announced that President Mwai Kibaki had won in what was seen as a close vote in the election for president held on 27 December.

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