Kenya clans 'rearm for 2012 poll'

Nairobi, 07 Oct-(ANA)-Rival ethnic groups in Kenya who fought after the 2007 election are rearming in readiness for violence at the 2012 poll, reports say.

It is feared villagers in Rift Valley province are moving from traditional weapons such as spears to machine guns.

Government officials insist they are tackling the influx of illegal arms.

But they have been widely criticised for failing to punish the ringleaders of violence after the 2007 election, in which 1,300 people died.

A power-sharing government was formed in early 2008 to quell the violence.

It has been under international pressure to investigate the killings ever since, but its failure to organise a local tribunal has forced the International Criminal Court to step in to prosecute suspects. (ANA)

FA/ANA/07 October 2009---