The 7th of July is usually a very busy day in Dar es Salaam, home to the annual National Saba-Saba Trade Fair. But this year, the city looked different. Most streets were empty, as if the city’s nearly 6 million residents had vanished overnight.
The Committee to Protect Journalists called late Monday for an investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a senior journalist in Kenya that followed angry criticism of his newspaper by President William Ruto.
Demonstrations have traditionally been held on July 7 to commemorate the day in 1990 when Kenyans rose up to demand a return to multi-party democracy after years of autocratic rule by then-president Daniel arap Moi. It has become known as “Saba Saba Day”.
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