Deadly protests in Nairobi over Kenya's controversial finance bill

Protesters faced off with heavy-handed police in Kenya’s capital over a finance bill that would have imposed new levies on essential goods and pushed the burden of external debt repayment on the country’s increasingly unemployed and struggling citizens.

Sunday 30 June 2024 13:30, UK

Protesters’ calls for the bill to be thrown out were dismissed by an open ballot in the National Assembly but the country's president went on to withdraw it.
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