Kenya leader, opposition cool confrontation

In Nairobi's Mathare slum, several shacks were set ablaze and residents attacked each other with machetes. One man said people from Odinga's Luo tribe were fighting a gang from Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe. Police opened fire and one man was shot in the head and killed, according to an AP Television News cameraman.

A machete-wielding crowd then surrounded the police, forcing them to flee with three wounded people, including a man with half his leg hacked away.

Looters tried to break into a supermarket in the capital, but police fired live rounds in the air.

"We shot in the air to scare them away," said Mark Mwara, an officer in charge of the area. "They are still angry and they will try again."

Lining up for food
Thousands in and around Nairobi's slums — home to a third of the capital's population — lined up for food after days of riots left them cut off and shortages have led to major price increases. In a fairground on the outskirts of the Kibera shantytown, volunteers were handing out sacks of maize flour and laundry detergent to women and children.

Kaltuma Musa, 12, who was among hundreds of children thronging a volunteer handing out cookies, said she came because she heard there was food.

Musa popped one cookie in her mouth and put another in her pocket.

"I'll take this one home," Musa said. "It's for my mother."

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