By Adam Mynott
BBC News, Nairobi
Ex-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has announced mediation talks to defuse the Kenyan election crisis are being moved to a secret location in the country.
A senior UN official who is helping to oversee the discussions said it was to move the sensitive discussions away from close media attention in Nairobi.
The discussions have been taking place for the past fortnight in a five-star hotel in the centre of the capital.
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Negotiators have been subjected to the full and relentless glare of the media during mediation talks.
News blackout
Members of the two panels involved in the discussions from the government and the opposition have been ambushed going in and out of the hotel by a small army of cameramen and reporters.
This has prompted Mr Annan to move the talks out of the capital for the next three days and he has requested the negotiating teams not to disclose the contents of the talks to anyone.
The former secretary general has asked for a complete news blackout, saying at the appropriate time, he will release the outcome of discussions to the media.
Later on Tuesday, he will go to the Kenyan parliament to address an informal gathering of MPs to inform them of progress so far.
He will also outline areas of institutional and constitutional reform that they might need to examine to try to prevent such a crisis happening again.
(BBC)
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