Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for nationwide protests against President William Ruto, whom he accuses of cheating in 2022’s election
A Riot police officer kicks a teargas canister to disperse supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Alliance, as they participate in a nationwide protest over cost of living and President William Ruto's government in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on March 20 2023. Picture: REUTERS/THOMAS MUKOYA
The discontented include some of those who voted for Ruto and feel he has not delivered on pledges to help the country’s forgotten “hustlers,” or working-class Kenyans. In the western city of Kisumu, an Odinga stronghold, police fired barrages of teargas at protesters who had started fires in the road, footage on Citizen TV showed.
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