School children run to safety past burning barricades on April 8, during clashes between police and opposition party supporters in the Kibera area of Nairobi in post-election violence. On April 13, President Mwai Kibaki announced a power-sharing agreement with opposition party members led by Raila Odinga. Photo: AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo

They had pledged to announce a joint government April 6 after parliament approved their power-sharing accord in March but could not agree on the makeup of the Cabinet, with both sides trying to secure the most powerful portfolios.

Kenyans also protested the size of the proposed Cabinet, objecting to having 40 ministers in the government.

But Pres. Kibaki, in a speech broadcast live on television presented a Cabinet in which the ministries are split equally between his Party of National Unity and its allied parties, and Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement.

He named Musalia Mudavadi, the second in command in Odinga’s party, as deputy prime minister. Also named as a deputy prime minister in the new Cabinet is Uhuru Kenyatta, a Kibaki ally who is a son of Kenyan independence hero and its first president, Jomo Kenyatta.

The public had grown increasingly impatient with Kibaki and Odinga. For three days earlier in the week, scuffles broke out in Kenya’s largest slum, Kibera, between police and residents protesting the delay.

Kibera was the scene of some of the worst post-election violence in January and February.