Peace Agreements Database

Country/entity

Kenya

Region

Africa (excl MENA)

Agreement name

Al-Fatah Peace Declaration

Date

29/09/1993

Agreement status

Multiparty signed/agreed

Interim arrangement

No

Agreement/conflict level

Intrastate/local conflict (Kenyan Post-Electoral Violence (2007 - 2008)

The conflict emerged as post-election violence. After the incumbent President Kibaki was declared the winner of the Kenyan presidential elections in December 2007, complaints of fraud and a structural disadvantage affecting his competitor Raila Odinga lead to outbreaks of severe ethno-political violence. After the first incidents in the Rift Valley region, mainly directed against the Kikuyu ethnic group – the traditional powerbase of Kibaki – the fighting spread to the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa. After two months, Kibaki and Odinga agreed on a power-sharing agreement that granted Odinga the post as a Prime Minister and ended the violence.

Kenyan Post-Electoral Violence (2007 - 2008) )

Stage

Framework/substantive - partial (Multiple issues)

Conflict nature

Inter-group

Peace process

140: Kenya Local Agreements

Parties

Find appended a list of signatories to the declaration.
CC.
District Commissioner,
Wajir
Provincial Commissioner,
North Eastern Province,
Garissa
Permanent Secretary in the Office of the
President -In charge of Internal Security
United Nations -UNICEF & WFP
GTZ
All NGOs
All MPs -Northern Kenya Parliamentary Group
The Mass Media

Third parties

Description

Agreement between major clans in the Wajir district to bring inter-clan fighting, and banditry to an end.

Agreement document

KE_930929_al-Fatah Peace Declaration.pdf []

Main category

Page 1, Untitled Preamble
(a) Taking stock of the increasing intensity of inter-clan fighting between the major clans in Wajir district and especially between Degodia and the Ajuran clans which have continued to claim lives of tens of people, many of them children, women and innocent;

Page 1, 7
That from the date of this ceasefire, the traditional law pertaining to blood leud will apply to those who commit murder namely the payment of hundred camels for a man and filtv camels for a women. In the case of stock theft, the rule of collective punishment involving whole groups of people will be applied.

Women, girls and gender

Participation

No specific mention.

Equality

No specific mention.

Particular groups of women

No specific mention.

International law

No specific mention.

New institutions

No specific mention.

Violence against women

Other

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7. That from the date of this ceasefire, the traditional law pertaining to blood feud will apply to those who commit murder namely the payment of hundred camels for a man and fifty camels for a women. In the case of stock theft, the rule of collective punishment involving whole groups of people will be applied.

Transitional justice

No specific mention.

Institutional reform

No specific mention.

Development

No specific mention.

Implementation

No specific mention.

Other

No specific mention.