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Eleven killed in Kenya as protesters conflict with police

By Editorial Board Published July 7, 2025 4 Min Read
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Eleven killed in Kenya as protesters conflict with police

Eleven folks have been killed in Kenya after clashing with police on the newest anti-government protests, the East African nation’s police stated.

An extra 29 folks had been injured, the state-funded Kenya Nationwide Fee stated.

Some Kenyans have for weeks been protesting police brutality, poor governance and the excessive price of dwelling, whereas demanding President William Ruto’s resignation.

Authorities right now blocked main roads resulting in the capital, Nairobi, within the strictest measures but to comprise the unrest, which noticed protesters mild bonfires and throw stones at police. Dozens of officers had been injured, Kenyan police stated.

Officers fired and hurled tear gasoline canisters, injuring demonstrators. One younger man being carried away, together with his shirt drenched in blood, stated he had been shot.

In addition to blocking autos from accessing Nairobi’s metropolis centre, police additionally stopped most pedestrians until they had been deemed to have important duties.

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Riot police use water cannons to scatter protesters. Pic: AP

Protests had been recorded throughout 17 of Kenya’s 47 counties, the Kenya Nationwide Fee stated.

In Kenya, 7 July is called Saba Saba, which is Swahili for Seven Seven.

It is a important date in Kenya’s historical past and marks the anniversary of the primary main protests 35 years in the past.

These demonstrations referred to as on then-President Daniel arap Moi – Mr Ruto’s mentor – for a transition from a one-party state to a multiparty democracy. This modification was realised within the 1992 elections.

A professor of historical past and worldwide relations at United States Worldwide College Africa in Nairobi stated there’s “no reversing the Gen Z Saba Saba-like spirit”.

Macharia Munene stated: “Attempt to criminalise protests is reactive and will not work.

“It as an alternative makes the federal government seem retrogressive and determined sufficient to subvert the structure.”

Kenya anti-riot police barricade roads to Parliament buildings with razor wire in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, July 7, 2025. AP Photo

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Kenya anti-riot police barricaded roads to Nairobi parliament buildings forward of right now’s protests. Pic: AP

Kenya’s inside minister Kipchumba Murkomen stated on Sunday that the federal government wouldn’t tolerate violent protests and police can be deployed to make sure public security.

Final month, he instructed police to “shoot on sight” anybody who approaches police stations throughout protests, after a number of had been burned.

Kenya’s newest wave of demonstrations was sparked by requires police accountability after the dying of a blogger in police custody final month.

A police officer then shot a civilian at shut vary throughout a protest on 17 June, additional angering the general public.

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On 25 June, not less than 19 folks had been killed throughout demonstrations in opposition to police brutality that had been held to mark the one-year anniversary of anti-tax protests.

The 2024 protests culminated in parliament being stormed and greater than 60 folks being killed.

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