The small propeller-driven plane piloted by Peter Szapary, an Austrian count turned Kenyan flower farmer, banked and flew low over the Rift Valley town of Naivasha. Some traffic was visible on the main road, the same rotten one that connects much of the interior of eastern Africa, including Uganda, with the sea. But in the town itself things were largely at a standstill. Several streets were controlled by crowds of Kikuyu youths armed with clubs, machetes, bows and arrows. Here and there, houses were burning.
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