The Netherlands is to give €150,000 to former United Nations chief Kofi Annan to help him and his team find a solution to the violence in Kenya, Dutch aid minister Bert Koenders said on Friday morning.

The Netherlands is the first country to give financial support to Kofi Annan’s peace initiative in Kenya, Koenders said in a telephone interview from Nairobi with BNR radio.
Koenders said Kofi Annan is doing ‘good work’ in the country and the money would fund his initial administrative needs. ‘This is a political signal from Europe that it is not business as usual in Kenya,’ said Koenders.
Koenders is expected to meet Kenya’s opposition party ODM later on Friday and on Saturday will visit the areas where riots broke out after the presidential election on December 27.
‘Tomorrow I will make a decision about emergency aid for Kenya,’ Koenders told BNR.
According to the Red Cross, a thousand people have died in the riots that broke out after the election and hundreds of thousands have fled the violence.