NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's opposition leader vowed to go ahead with a "million man" protest rally Thursday that many fear could worsen a wave of political and ethnic violence which humanitarian groups say has already killed 300 people and displaced 100,000.
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Though much of Nairobi was quiet Wednesday, shots rang out in the city's sprawling Mathare slum, where police escorted terrified families to safety as fire raged through shacks.

"All you do here is come to pick up bodies," Boniface Shikami, a bystander, shouted at police.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga claims President Mwai Kibaki's re-election in the Dec. 27 vote was a sham, and his massive rally in Nairobi could bring hundreds of thousands of supporters and their rivals onto the streets of the capital.

The government has banned the march, setting the stage for clashes between security forces and Odinga's supporters.