‘Ruto must go!’: Kenyan police confront antigovernment protesters
Al Jazeera
Police fire tear gas as renewed demonstrations demand President William Ruto step down.
Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters aiming to keep pressure on President William Ruto after he made a series of concessions to demonstrators.
Activists behind weeks of protests that were initially sparked by proposed tax hikes called for a “total shutdown” of the country on Tuesday.
The protests have created the biggest crisis of Ruto’s two years in power and have continued even after the president withdrew $2.7bn in tax hikes and fired nearly his entire cabinet.
Many demonstrators are demanding that Ruto step down, blaming him for misgovernance, corruption and the deaths of dozens of protesters during earlier antigovernment rallies.
On Tuesday, police fired tear gas in Kitengela, a town on the southern outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, where about 200 protesters burned tyres and chanted, “Ruto must go!” and “Stop killing us.”
