By Ben Agina
Several world leaders have reacted to the violence arising from the disputed presidential elections in Kenya.
According to Los Angeles Times, US President George Bush called on both President Kibaki and ODM leader Raila Odinga to reach a solution.
"It's very important for the people of Kenya to not resort to violence," Bush told Reuters news agency in an interview at the White House. "I believe that they have an opportunity to come together in some kind of arrangement that will help heal the wounds of a closely divided election."
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the U.S. was not prescribing what the solution should be.
"They do need to come together, they need to broker some political solution to the political crisis. . . . They are going to have to define that."
South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the international figures trying to help mediate, said Kenya's stability had been damaged.
"This is a country that has been held up as a model of stability. This picture has been shattered. This is not the Kenya that we know," Tutu said in Nairobi.
And the Daily Telegraph reported that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for President Mwai Kibaki and the popular opposition leader, Raila Odinga, to work together to ease tensions.
"I want to see the possibility explored where they can come together in government," he told reporters.
"The reason is the violence must come to an end. There has been criticism of the election procedures. I think it is important all sides must recognise that by working together we can make progress."
David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, said both rival leaders had "major responsibilities" for the violence, and called on them to find "common ground" to heal their country's divisions.
"I very much hope that both Mr Odinga and President Kibaki will realise that actually there is nothing to be gained by either of them in pretending that this is cut and dried," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that there was evidence of vote-rigging by both sides.
The Canadian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maxime Bernier and Beverly J, Oda the International Co-operation Minister said: Ò Canadians are shocked at the horrific deaths of people taking refuge in an Eldoret Church as well as at the loss of life elsewhere in KenyaÓ.
They said Canada is very concerned about the number of Kenyans displaced in their own country because of violence and lawlessness.
The World Bank said on that the unrest threatened KenyaÕs impressive recent economic growth and poverty reduction, citing business leadersÕ estimates that the country was losing some $30 million a day.
And the ills here are hurting the entire region. Gas stations in Rwanda are now rationing fuel because their supply from Kenya has been cut.
In Uganda, Sudan and Congo, displaced people are running low on food because United Nations relief trucks cannot get past vigilante checkpoints.
''Production in places like Tanzania is slowing because materials that come from Kenya have not arrived. Kenya is the dynamo of this whole region," said Harvey Rouse, a diplomat for the European Union.
Mr. Rouse spoke from a hill overlooking an enormous slum where the police were battling protesters.
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