Coalition Cabinet deal is reported

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga struck a deal on a power-sharing Cabinet after secret one-on-one talks to end a six-week impasse, sources close to the talks said.

The formation of a coalition Cabinet is the crux of a deal to end the east African nation’s postelection crisis. More than 1,200 people died and 300,000 were displaced in the country’s bloodiest period since independence in 1963.

There were no immediate details about the makeup or size of the Cabinet. Kibaki and Odinga, who under the peace deal brokered by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan will become prime minister, were under heavy local and international pressure to break the deadlock on the Cabinet.