ARE YOU CONSCIOUS of happenings in East Africa? That season which befell Zimbabwe in 2018 is upon them. They too are also talking about electoral reforms. Is our opposition up for the task? We found something from New York Times and thought it may be insightful....
by Jeffrey Gettleman
NAIROBI, Kenya — By 9 a.m. on Monday, clouds of black smoke blotted out the sky. A mountain of tires burned. Roads were blocked. Young men poured into the streets of a slum in Nairobi, gleefully carrying huge, jagged pieces of concrete.
In Kisumu, a city on Lake Victoria, witnesses said police officers had fired on a crowd. A 5-year-old boy was in critical condition after being shot in the back. A demonstrator was killed.
For the past several weeks, Kenya’s opposition leaders have turned Mondays into protest days. Now they are threatening to hold demonstrations twice, and soon four times, a week. Many Kenyans are shaking their heads with a sense of fatigue and dread, saying, Here we go again.
by Jeffrey Gettleman
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| A motorcyclist stopped at a burning barricade set up by opposition supporters in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, during the weekly protest on what is now known as Tear Gas Monday. Credit Dai Kurokawa/European Pressphoto Agency |
In Kisumu, a city on Lake Victoria, witnesses said police officers had fired on a crowd. A 5-year-old boy was in critical condition after being shot in the back. A demonstrator was killed.
For the past several weeks, Kenya’s opposition leaders have turned Mondays into protest days. Now they are threatening to hold demonstrations twice, and soon four times, a week. Many Kenyans are shaking their heads with a sense of fatigue and dread, saying, Here we go again.