Redykulyass members KJ and Walter Mongare

After protests following last month’s elections, leaving 600 people dead and up to a quarter of a million displaced, Kenya’s leading political contenders are finally talking peace.

With President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga agreeing to meet with mediator and chairman of the African Union, John Kufor, it is hoped that at least some of the political tension may ease.

In this special episode of People & Power, we take a look back at a much happier time, when Kenyan comedy group, Redykulyass encouraged young Kenyans to register to vote in the December 2007 elections.

Balochistan has a population of about 10 million inhabitants

Since 1948, the Baloch nationalists have been demanding greater political rights, autonomy and control over their natural resources.

Its people, the vast majority of whom live in poverty, claim they have been deprived of their share of gas royalties, despite producing over half of the country’s gas.

The nationalists have led a number of insurgencies which have been totally suppressed by the army. But there is growing fear that a new insurgency could create a new Bangladesh.

Sal Ahmed reports from Balochistan.

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