Kenyan police fired tear gas at a small group of protesters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday as the opposition resumed anti-government demonstrations following a one-month pause.
Riot police officers control traffic after a bus was torched by unknown people ahead of protests by supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Alliance, in a nationwide protest over cost of living and President William Ruto's government in Nairobi, Kenya May 2, 2023.Kenyan police fired teargas at a small group of protesters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday as the opposition resumed antigovernment demonstrations following a one-month pause.
The main opposition coalition organised three days of demonstrations in March to protest high living costs and alleged fraud in last year's election, which its leader Raila Odinga lost to President William Ruto. Those protests were marred by clashes between police and demonstrators as well as sporadic incidents of violence, including one that Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki termed as “ethnically-laced arson” when a church and mosque were set ablaze in Nairobi's Kibera neighbourhood.
Odinga suspended the demonstrations in early April, agreeing to talks with Ruto's representatives. But he later announced that the protests would resume, accusing the government of not negotiating in good faith.
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