- Title: Kenya's military deployed ahead of planned anti-government protests
- Date: 27th June 2024
- Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (JUNE 27, 2024) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF KENYAN MILITARY SOLDIERS PATROLLING ON FOOT AT NYAYO STADIUM MILITARY SOLDIERS GETTING INTO VEHICLES AT STADIUM SOLDIERS ON MILITARY VEHICLES AT STADIUM SOLDIERS STANDING AROUND AT STADIUM SOLDIER SEATED ON A VEHICLE/ KENYAN FLAG ON UNIFORM AT STADIUM SOLDIERS SEATEAD ON VEHICLE AT STADIUM MILITARY VEHICLES/ SOLDIERS SITTING ON THEM AT STADIUM MILITARY VEHICLE TRAVELING FROM NYAYO STADIUM TO ULINZI COMPLEX MILITARY PERSONNEL CLOSING THE GATE AT ULINZI COMPLEX
- Embargoed: 11th July 2024 11:14
- Keywords: bill finance kenya military nairobi protest ruto
- Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
- City: NAIROBI, KENYA
- Country: Kenya
- Topics: Africa,Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001428827062024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Kenyan military forced were deployed from Nairobi's Nyayo stadium on Thursday (June 26) ahead of planned anti-government demonstrations.
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.
It was not clear how far protesters would be mollified by Ruto's Wednesday decision to withdraw the finance bill, a day after clashes killed at least 23 people and saw parliament being stormed briefly.
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.
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