While Africa is certainly no stranger to violence, the response to the Kenyan presidential elections of 2007 came as a surprise.

By Katharine Houreld Associated Press ELDORET, Kenya -- Young men from rival ethnic groups hunted each other through the streets of a western Kenyan town Saturday, burning houses and blocking roads a day after the country's political foes agreed to try to end weeks of violence.

The top American diplomat for Africa said Wednesday that some of the violence that has swept across Kenya in the past month has been ethnic cleansing but that it has not been genocide.

By MICHELLE FAUL By Michelle Faul The Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya Kenya, once a leader in the region, is following neighbors such as Somalia down a path of disintegration, with no solution in sight as burning slums and thousands fleeing in fear alter the nation's ethnic map .

By The Associated Press KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - 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.