The violence erupted on Saba Saba Day (meaning Seven Seven) when demonstrators annually mark the events of July 7, 1990 when Kenyans rose up to demand a return to multi-party democracy after years of autocratic rule by then-president Daniel arap Moi.
The movement gained momentum through digital platforms like TikTok, X, and Facebook, where calls for mass mobilization spread rapidly. Chants of “Ruto Must Go” and “Mwizi!” echoed across towns and cities, reflecting widespread anger toward the government’s perceived failures.
In a statement documented, ten (10) fatalities were recorded, twenty-nine (29) injured, two (2) cases of abduction and thirty-seven (37) arrests across seventeen (17) counties”. However it did not provide any further details.
The World Food Programme (WFP) warned this week that acute malnutrition rates among refugee children in South Sudan — fleeing the war in Sudan — had “already breached emergency thresholds”.
A peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda aimed at ending decades of conflict in eastern DRC paves the way for “a new era of stability”, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said Monday.
The Israeli military said in a statement that its forces “eliminated… a commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force” in the Baraasheet area, referring to the Iran-backed group’s elite unit, and an operative from “Hezbollah’s observation force” in Beit Lif.
Just over 5,300 students were sitting the second day of the baccalaureat exams at the time of the explosion early Wednesday afternoon in Bangui, the capital of the deeply poor nation.
Although the anniversary marches began peacefully Wednesday, they descended into chaos as young men held running battles with security forces, lit fires and ripped up flagstones to throw at police.
Armed “bandits”, as they’re known in the west African country, stormed a base in Niger state Tuesday, overrunning it after a gun battle with troops stationed to combat criminal gangs and jihadists operating in the region, the sources said.
Trump so far has frustrated Western allies by refusing to impose new sanctions on Russia despite President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to agree to a Ukraine ceasefire.
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