Kenyan children still feel aftermaths of poll violence

Kenya is still feeling the aftermath of the wave of violence that claimed at least 1 200 lives and displaced an estimated 350 000 people, mostly women and children, following the controversial results of elections last December, a Unicef official has said.

In an interview with Mmegi, Unicef communication adviser for East and Southern Africa, Patricia Lone, said situations of internal conflict filtered through to children, "especially when neighbour turns against neighbour as happened in Kenya."

Lone said such situations had a drastic effect on children who were traumatised to see people they had trusted turn against them.

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