Kenya 25 June 2024

[Serge Forward]

Demo against a tax increase invaded parliament and demonstrators gunned down by police. Kenya protests live: Protesters shot and fire at parliament during demonstrations against tax rises

 

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Kenya protests simmer after deadly week of anti-finance bill demonstrations
28 Jun 2024
High Court rules in favour of a petition demanding a halt to the use of potentially deadly weaponry by police.

Hundreds gathered for the funeral of a teenage demonstrator killed during Kenya’s antigovernment protests as the death toll from days of unrest rose to 27.

Three more protesters died overnight Friday as police continued a violent crackdown with the Kenyan High Court ordering security forces to halt the firing of live rounds, rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas and water cannon into crowds.

The turmoil unfolded as young activists successfully forced the government to shelve $2.7bn in tax hikes this week, and now focus on ending years of what they see as endemic corruption and shoddy governance.

 

[Idris2002]

Excellent piece by the best student I ever had:

The world is scrambling to understand Kenya’s historic protests – this is what too many are missing | Nanjala Nyabola

A finance bill was the trigger, but the backdrop is government debt and blinkered interventions from western institutions, says Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola

www.theguardian.com

 

[CNT36]

I was only reading a piece last week by a Kenyan addressed to the people of Haiti warning them about the Kenyan police being brought over to "help". They mentioned the brutality but also the corruption.

 

[two sheds]

Excellent piece by the best student I ever had:

The world is scrambling to understand Kenya’s historic protests – this is what too many are missing | Nanjala Nyabola

A finance bill was the trigger, but the backdrop is government debt and blinkered interventions from western institutions, says Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola

www.theguardian.com

A similar story can be told of the new overpass in Nairobi for which hundreds of trees across what was once Africa’s greenest capital were cut down. The road was built but the tolls were too expensive, so it remains underutilised. Yet the nation remains on the hook for the debt.

would never happen here

 

[moochedit]

Doh

 

[Silas Loom]

Is sainsbury's ok? Only easy to get to place near my work at lunchtime is a sainsbury's local.

The Nairobi one?

 

[moochedit]

The Nairobi one?

Wtf somehow posted in wrong thread

 

[moochedit]

Wtf somehow posted in wrong thread

Maybe the "it outage" has finally reached urban