From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2008:

NAIROBI, HARARE–The difficulty of restoring Kenyan animal
services after just a few weeks of unrest following the disputed
outcome of the December 27, 2007 national election hints at the
magnitude of the job ahead in Zimbabwe, where a similar
post-election crisis appears to be capping nearly nine years of
conditions almost as dysfunctional as the worst Kenya experienced.
As ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press, rioting had just resumed in
the Kibera slum district of Nairobi, near the headquarters of the
Kenya Wildlife Service, after talks broke down that were intended to
achieve a power-sharing arrangement satisfactory to supporters of
both incumbent president Mwai Kibaki and challenger Raila Odinga. As
earlier, all Kenyan animal advocates could do was hunker down, try
to stay out of the line of fire, and help the animals they could
with whatever they had, wherever they were caught when the trouble
started.
The outcome of the March 29, 2008 Zimbabwean national
election likewise remained uncertain. The Zanu-PF party, ruling
Zimbabwe since 1980, appeared to have lost control of the national
parliament, but Harare Daily News editor Barnabas Thondiana told
ANIMAL PEOPLE that agents of Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president
since 1980, “secretly stuffed ballots to enable him to achieve a
respectable election figure.” Claiming military support, Mugabe
tried to remain in power despite many indications that he had been
electorally defeated.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2008:
NAIROBI–More than 150 of the estimated 530 mob and 82 police
killings wracking Kenya during the four weeks after the disputed
outcome of the December 27, 2007 national election came in Kibera,
a shantytown just a stray bullet’s distance from the headquarters of
the Kenya Wildlife Service, KWS animal orphanage, Nairobi National
Park, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant and rhino
orphanage, the Kenya SPCA, and the offices of Youth for
Conservation and the African Network for Animal Welfare.
They had all escaped the violence, as of press time for the
January/February 2008 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE.
Wildlife refuges elsewhere in Kenya were also imperiled. “A
few dozen miles from the Masai Mara game reserve in Narok,” reported
Associated Press on January 19, “Masai fighters and men from
President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe battled for hours with machetes,
clubs, swords and bows and arrows. Five people were killed and 25
wounded, police chief Patrick Wambani said. Homes and shops were set
ablaze.”

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