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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Protests continued in Kenya's capital and elsewhere Tuesday over a finance bill that would raise the cost of living, even after the president said he would not sign it in ...
July 16, 2024 at 5:30 AM. By Thomas Mukoya and Monicah Mwangi. NAIROBI (Reuters) -At least one person was killed in renewed anti-government protests across Kenya on Tuesday, a Reuters reporter ...
July 12, 2024 at 1:30 PM. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s police boss resigned Friday, the latest attempt by the country's president to respond to growing concerns of police brutality in ...
Russo–Ukrainian war. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that at least 56 Russian civilians were killed and 266 more were wounded by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies as Russian propaganda. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents.
On 25 June 2024, thousands of protesters stormed the Kenyan Parliament Building in Nairobi in response to the passing of the Kenya Finance Bill 2024, part of a larger series of protests against the proposed tax increases. The protest escalated when the protesters set part of the building on fire. [4] Nineteen people died in Nairobi during the ...
The Kenya Finance Bill protests, widely known by #RejectFinanceBill2024, or Gen Z protests, were a series of decentralized mass protests in Kenya against tax increases proposed by the Government of Kenya in the Finance Bill 2024. [11] Following the storming of the Kenyan Parliament, president William Ruto reportedly rejected the Bill on 28 June ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan parliament on Thursday approved the deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help deal with rising gang violence in the Caribbean nation.
Political parties. Elections. The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) is the current ruling political party in Kenya. Their slogan is "Kazi ni Kazi" (literally: A job is a job; All hustles matter) [1] and their symbol is a wheelbarrow. The party, initially called the Party of Development and Reforms, officially changed its name to UDA in December ...