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Today (Sunday, March 19, 2023) marks 222 days – roughly 32 weeks - since our August 9, 2022, general election. This leaves us 1,605 days (about 229 weeks) ...

Building tensions between Kenya's President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga is likely to lead to disruptions in its capital city Nairobi on ...

The 2007 protests featured widespread violence that left more than 1,1000 people dead and displaced about 650,000 from their homes. Security agencies have in recent days erected roadblocks around the State House in Nairobi and the State Lodge in Kisumu, suggesting they are not taking those threats lightly and would do everything to prevent breaches. The 2007 post-election violence saw growth shrink to 0.23 percent in 2008 from 6.85 percent.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called out his supporters to the streets for what he describes as the "mother of all demonstrations".

Raila on the other hand must know that violence breeds violence and he can still present his petition without beating up the drums of war. - Raila on the other hand must know that violence breeds violence and he can still present his petition without beating up the drums of war. - Magnanimity in victory has never caused anyone constipation and extending an olive branch to his rivals will not make Ruto any less a man.

Across Africa, mass protests are being held in South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Senegal, as well as Kenya.

In the first 100 days of his presidency, Ruto has dutifully imposed the dictates of the IMF. The economy is suffering falling forex reserves, depreciating of the Kenyan shilling, and mounting debt and debt servicing obligations amid a shortage of US dollars. Mass protest and strikes across the world has shaken bourgeois rule to its very core. Odinga, with an estimated net worth of $3.3 billion, has refused to present any concrete demands, besides vague calls for Ruto to reintroduce food and fuel subsidies, while insisting that exerting more pressure on the government will force it to reverse social attacks. In Tunisia, protestors marched against the rising cost-of-living, insecurity and the drive to authoritarian forms of rule by President Kais Saied. Food accounts for nearly a third of the shopping basket for Kenyan families. For weeks, millions across Europe have been striking and protesting to express their anger against the planned attacks and pro-war policies. Latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows that households spent 13.3 percent more on food compared to a year earlier. Monday’s protest in Kenya coincides with demonstrations across the world against austerity and worsening social conditions, marking a growing revolutionary situation internationally. In anticipation of the rally, the government converted Nairobi into a fortress, deploying 5,000 heavily armed police offices and the notorious paramilitary, the General Service Unit (GSU). The Kenyan government of President William Ruto is threatening police violence against Monday’s protest against high costs-of-living. They were handcuffed and bundled to the Central Police Station charged with engaging in an illegal gathering.

Leader of the Azimio la Umoja party Raila Odinga called for a protest to happen on Monday over the country's soaring inflation rate that hit 9.4% ...

"We will not allow that," he said, calling on Odinga to act in a "legal and constitutional manner." "I want Kenyans to come out in large numbers and show the displeasure of what is happening in our country," he told his supporters Sunday. Raila Odinga, leader of the Azimio la Umoja party, had called for Monday's demonstration in Nairobi over soaring inflation, which in February reached 9.2% year-on-year in the East African nation.

The Nairobi Police Commander Adamson Bungei on Sunday declared the planned protest by the opposition's Azimio La Umoja coalition illegal since it could ...

Kenya’s National Police Service on Sunday outlawed mass demonstrations organized by the main opposition coalition Monday in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to protest against the rising cost of living and electoral injustice. He added that security personnel will intensify vigilance Monday to avert a breakdown of law and order as the main opposition coalition piles pressure on the government to tackle an economic downturn that has escalated unemployment and inflation. Nairobi, Kenya