A high-level delegation from the African Union has left Kenya without brokering a resolution to the crisis over last month’s disputed election. Some 600 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since President Mwai Kibaki beat out challenger Raila Odinga. Kibaki has sworn in a new cabinet despite allegations of election fraud. As he left Kenya, Ghana President and Africa Union chair John Kufuor called for new efforts at mediation.

Ghana President John Kufuor: “It is very sad. It’s a beautiful country, it’s a great country, and everybody should be able to live in together happily. Everybody talks of democracy. Democracy entails that even when you disagree, you agree to disagree, you don’t shoot at each other, you don’t kill.”

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is expected to lead a new push for a truce. Meanwhile, Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights is calling for a criminal probe into alleged election abuses by Kenyan officials. Human Rights Commission chair Maina Kiai presented a petition to police in Nairobi.

Maina Kiai: “We, the Kenyans for peace with truth and justice, are filing a criminal complaint against the Electoral Commission of Kenya with regard to a series of criminal offenses that we believe were committed by various people
in the processing, management and control of the immediate past general elections.”