Kenyan police have fired teargas and water cannon to disperse protesters as thousands took to the streets to mark the one-year anniversary of anti-government demonstrations that left dozens dead. <\/p>\n
The government regulator, the Communications Authority of Kenya, has ordered all television and radio stations in the country to stop broadcasting live coverage of protests of the youth-led march, which began Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Thousands of people demonstrated in the capital, Nairobi, the coastal city of Mombasa, and other towns to mark the protest anniversary. <\/p>\n
In Nairobi, roads leading to the Kenyan Parliament building and the president\u2019s office were barricaded ahead of the demonstrations. <\/p>\n
Last June, many were killed by security forces outside Parliament, drawing nationwide outrage. <\/p>\n
The demonstrations in 2024 forced the withdrawal of a controversial finance bill that raised taxes. <\/p>\n
However, many of Kenya\u2019s youth are still enraged over several cases of alleged <\/strong>police brutality, including the death of a teacher in police custody and the shooting of an unarmed street vendor. <\/p>\n Demonstrators were also repelled with teargas and water cannon trucks in the capital \u2013 reminiscent of last year\u2019s dramatic scenes. <\/p>\n Citizen TV posted a video on X showing injured individuals being wheeled into a Nairobi hospital. <\/p>\n In Mombasa, some protesters were arrested and hauled into police trucks, another video showed. <\/p>\n One person is reported to have been killed during demonstrations in eastern Kenya\u2019s Machakos County on Wednesday morning, according to Citizen TV. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kenyan police have fired teargas and water cannon to disperse protesters as thousands took to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}