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2 weeks ago | 
africasacountry.com | Rose Miyonga |Wangui Kimari |Lauren Brown
The legacies of the past are always our present, and the histories that we are not able to confront continue to play out. This is certainly true in Kenya, where the unfinished business of the Mau Mau war and the injustices of British colonial rule endure.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Onyonge Mengo |Wangui Kimari |Wairimu Gathimba
There has been much attention given to the actions by GenZs and others under the RutoMustGo resistance activities in Kenya . This is appropriate as these actions have been the open face of resistance in Kenya in the last year. However, such resistance is, by its very nature, short-lived and difficult to maintain over the long term as it lacks the foundation for sustained activity. This is not to say that it did not have an impact on events in the country.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
rebelion.org | Wangui Kimari
Fuentes: Rebelión [Foto: un hombre observa la noticia de que Roto ha disuelto el Gobierno en julio tras las protestas que dejaron decenas de manifestantes muertos (EFE - Daniel Irungu)]Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Beatriz Morales Bastos
Desde que en junio empezaron las protestas contra la ley de finanzas, decenas de personas siguen en paradero desconocido, un hecho que nos recuerda de forma descarnada el largo historial de secuestros y asesinatos del Estado keniano.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Manas Jena |Biju Negi |Andre Damon |Wangui Kimari
ToShri V L Kantha RaoUnion Secretary (Mines)Dear Shri Kantha Rao,I understand that your Ministry has allotted the Dugocha Gold mineral block in Udaipur District in Rajasthan in favour of HZL, in which the Vedanta Group holds the majority share The Dugocha Gold block is located in Dugocha, Dhariyabad, Salumber, Matasula, Bori, Bara Talav, Kothar, Jarap, Sanjela villages in Salumber Tehsil in Udaipur District in Rajasthan.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Wangui Kimari |Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng
Since June’s anti-finance bill protests, dozens of people remain unaccounted for—a stark reminder of the Kenyan state’s long history of abductions and assassinations. Ruto’s government is abducting people every day. Literally. There is not one day that has passed since the anti–finance bill protests started in June when Kenyans are not being bundled into unmarked Subaru cars by unidentified persons understood as plainclothes police officers (in all of their shades of vigilantism).
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Wangui Kimari
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Moina Spooner |Douglas Lucas Kivoi |Emma Elfversson |Gedion Onyango |Kamau Wairuri |Kristine Höglund | +3 more
Kenya’s police are being criticised for their violent response to protests over the past week against government proposals to . Hundreds of thousands of people, across 35 of Kenya’s 37 counties, have poured out onto the streets in opposition to the tax hikes. The police have reacted with force, using live bullets and tear gas. At least five people are known to have been killed and hundreds have been injured. The reaction by the police force didn’t come as a surprise.
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May 10, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Wangui Kimari |Nick Turse |Sean Jacobs
Interview by Wangui Kimari Although the fighting in Sudan may not dominate the mainstream news headlines, the violence continues to escalate and deepen already desperate displacement and hunger in the country. In the following interview, Musab Alhadi, a 22-year-old Sudanese activist, talks about the widespread devastation, from the decimation of Khartoum and its residents to the ethnic violence that has claimed many lives in Darfur.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
africasacountry.com | Faith Kasina |Irene Nduta |Wangui Kimari
Water in Nairobi is horribly unequal.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Wangui Kimari
In November 2022, Akinyi, a domestic worker from Kariobangi, was thrown off the fourth floor of an apartment building in Kiamaiko by her employer after she accused her of having stolen KSh 20,000. She was in her second trimester of a pregnancy. This is not the first or last of such incidents, and the collaboration and silence of local police stations and neighbours ensures that perpetrators of these kinds of violence continue to walk free.
