STORY: :: Kenyan police chase down protesters who vowed to occupy State House despite a tax climbdown
:: Nairobi, Kenya
:: June 27, 2024
Kenyan police officers and anti-government protesters clashed in the center of the capital Nairobi on Thursday (June 27). Police made arrests and used tear gas in an attempt to disperse them.
Protesters vowed on Thursday to keep up their demonstrations against President William Ruto's government despite his pledge to withdraw proposed tax hikes that prompted a week of deadly unrest.
Ruto is grappling with the most serious crisis of his two-year-old presidency as the youth-led protest movement has grown rapidly from online condemnations of the tax hikes into mass rallies demanding a political overhaul.
Lacking a formal leadership structure, however, protest supporters were divided on how far to carry the demonstrations.
