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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 ...
The capital Nairobi and surrounding areas were particularly affected. [2] The Nairobi River and the Athi River both burst their banks displacing 40,000 people. [ 4 ] At least 300 deaths, 188 injuries, 75 missing and 300,000 displaced people were reported.
July 18, 2024 at 6:42 AM. By Hereward Holland. NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya's government on Thursday ratcheted up its appeal for weeks of protests to stop as police banned demonstrations in the heart ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Cessna training aircraft collided with a passenger plane carrying 44 people above Kenya's capital Nairobi on Tuesday, killing the student and his trainer, police said. The ...
Lulu Hassan. Lulu Khadija Hassan is a Kenyan journalist, news anchor, [1] producer, and CEO of Jiffy Pictures. [2] She co-hosts the Nipashe Wikendi news bulletin on Citizen TV alongside Rashid Abdalla. [3] The Swahili-language bulletin airs on Saturday and Sunday. Lulu Hassan and Rashid Abdallah, one of Kenya's prominent media couples, founded ...
v. t. e. General elections were held in Kenya on Tuesday, 9 August 2022. Voters elected the president, governors, senators, members of the National Assembly, and members of county assemblies. This was the third general election and the fourth presidential one since the promulgation of the 2010 constitution. Incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta ...
2 February 1985 (age 39) Nairobi, Kenya. Political party. United Democratic Alliance [1] Occupation. Politician. Johnson Arthur Sakaja CBS (born 2 February 1985) is a Kenyan politician serving as the governor of Nairobi City County since 25 August 2022. Previously, he served as the Senator of Nairobi from 2017 to 2022, and as a nominated Member ...