Karen Allen

Sudan’s troubled Darfur region has been in turmoil for years. Now there is word that the Sudanese government has signed a tentative agreement that could pave the way towards a cessation in violence.

BBC correspondent Karen Allen has spoken to some of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s relatives. She joins The Takeaway from the village of Kogelo, in western Kenya.

The BBC’s Karen Allen reports on the emergence of vigilantes in Kenya in the year following the formation of a coalition government. A peace deal brokered by former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, put an end to the ethnic violence that erupted following disputed elections…but human rights groups say now vigilante violence has taken its […]