**The International Criminal Court has authorised its prosecutor to investigate the violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 election.**Some 1,300 people died and tens of thousands were displaced as political differences snowballed into weeks of ethnic score-settling after the poll.
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked judges last November to approve an investigation into the violence.
He has said Kenyan political leaders organised and financed some violence.
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