Ethnic bloodletting spreads in Kenya over elections

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

KISUMU, Kenya -- Thousands of machete-wielding youths hunted down members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe Monday in western Kenya's Rift Valley, torching homes and buses, clashing with police and blocking roads with burning tires.

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