{"id":35320,"date":"2024-07-16T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/kenya-police-uses-tear-gas-on-anti-government-protesters-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:50:30","slug":"kenya-police-uses-tear-gas-on-anti-government-protesters-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/kenya-police-uses-tear-gas-on-anti-government-protesters-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Police Uses Tear Gas on Anti-Government Protesters &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Police in Kenya on Tuesday used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who were demanding President William Ruto\u2019s resignation. Despite Ruto making several concessions, including withdrawing a controversial finance bill and firing nearly his entire cabinet, the protests have continued.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators are calling for action on issues like corruption and misgovernance, and many are demanding Ruto step down.The ongoing protests in Kenya have indeed created a significant crisis for President William Ruto.<\/p>\n<p>Activists, initially driven by proposed tax increases, have called for a \u201ctotal shutdown\u201d of the country, demanding Ruto\u2019s resignation due to alleged misgovernance, corruption, and the deaths of protesters during earlier rallies.<\/p>\n<p>In Nairobi, riot police used tear gas to disperse protesters, while in Mombasa, demonstrators marched with palm fronds. Although Ruto\u2019s office announced talks to address the grievances, many activists have rejected this, insisting on immediate action against corruption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Police in Kenya on Tuesday used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who were demanding President William Ruto\u2019s resignation. Despite Ruto making several concessions, including withdrawing a controversial finance bill and firing nearly his entire cabinet, the protests have continued. Demonstrators are calling for action on issues like corruption and misgovernance, and many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kenya-parliament.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35321,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35320\/revisions\/35321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}