Police fired teargas to scatter opposition protesters after a breakdown in power-sharing talks with President Kibaki's party.

The protests spread west from Nairobi to the opposition stronghold of Kisumu yesterday after Mr Kibaki and his rival Raila Odinga failed to agree a new Cabinet. Anyang Nyongo, the secretary-general of Mr Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement, said that talks would be suspended until Mr Kibaki's party “fully recognises the 50/50 power-sharing arrangement”.

The sprawling Kibera slum was convulsed by the biggest protests since both sides signed the deal in February to end the turmoil that killed at least 1,200 people after Mr Kibaki's disputed re-election in December. Residents said that youths looted shops and burnt tyres.

(Reuters)

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