Kenya . Kenya in Crisis In 2007 and 2008 Magnum Fellow (2011) Boniface Mwangi covered the elections in Kenya and recorded the resulting violence Please note:   Life Force magazine is greatly supported by you looking at our advertising which is free to view. The scale and speed of the violence that engulfed Kenya following the controversial presidential election of December 27, 2007 shocked both Kenyans and the world at large. Two months of bloodshed left over 1,000 dead and up to 500,000 internally displaced persons in a country viewed as a bastion of economic and political stability in a volatile region. The ethnic divisions laid bare in the aftermath of the elections have roots that run much deeper than the presidential poll. Kibera residents protest to police officers about their houses being tear gassed during the post election violence in Kenya. Kenya's president Mwai Kibaki during a meet the people tour around Nairobi city’s middle class estates 22nd December 2007 in Nairobi ahead of the general elections on December 27. A man casts his vote at poling station in Woodley estate in Nairobi, 27th Dec 2007. Electoral Commission of Kenya chairman Samwel Kivuitu tries to calm irate voters whose names were missing from the voters register at Olympic Primary School in Nairobi, Dec 27 2007. An opposition supporter confronts a General service unit officer in Huruma slums. Above-PNU Kibaki supporters confront ODM supporters with stones during street battles in Mathare slums 29 Dec 2007. A supporter of Presidential candidate Raila Odinga (R) is beaten by two supporters of Presidential candidate Mwai Kibaki (C) and (L) during a street fight in the Mathare neighborhood, Nairobi, 29 Dec. A looter exits from entrance to a store he was ransacking towards Kenyan riot police during disturbances in the Mathare neighborhood in Nairobi, 29 December 2007.  A Kenyan policeman runs past burning houses fearing that the power cables above may fall after supporters of presidential candidate Raila Odinga set fire at the Mathare slum, Nairobi, 30 December 07. A woman weeps after opposition supporters went on rampage and burnt houses in Mathare. A woman sees the body of her brother who was killed during inter-ethnic clashes between supporters of President Kibaki and the opposition leader Raila Odinga lies by the roadside 18 Jan 2008 in Mathare. A man is beaten by mob (L) while a minibus driver lies unconscious in front of his vandalized vehicle in Nairobi January 1, 2008. A girl who had escaped from been raped weeps in Mathare slums. Gangs of youth were taking advantage of the violence in the slums and raping women. A Kikuyu man is beaten by opposition supporters in the Mathare Slums, of Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. A woman stands over the body of her brother who was killed during inter-ethnic clashes between supporters of President Kibaki and the opposition leader Raila Odinga 18 January 2008 in Mathare Slums. A woman prepares food for her children at an internally displaced people camp at the Moi Airbase in Nairobi. Over half a million Kenyans were displaced during the post election violence. Former UN chief Koffi Annan have a cup of tea with Kenya president Mwai Kibaki and Opposition leader Raila Odinga.