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Ramaphosa to help Kenya mediation: Mbeki

ADDIS ABABA
Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:25pm EST

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Influential South African business tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa will go to Kenya on Friday to join efforts to end a bloody crisis that has killed 850 people, President Thabo Mbeki said,

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"He is going to Nairobi tomorrow at the request of Kofi Annan," the South African leader told Reuters. Former U.N. chief Annan is leading efforts to mediate between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga.

(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton, Editing by Barry Moody)
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