With police barricading every available route into Nairobi’s central business district and effectively suspending business activity across the country, the hotspots of protests marking the 35th anniversary of the 7 July Saba Saba pro-democracy demonstrations moved to the capital’s satellite towns. So did the violence. Protests swiftly turned violent In Kitengela, Ngong, Kiserian and Ong’ata Rongai in neighbouring Kajiado County to the city’s south, and Kiambu in the north. Riot police, alongside their plain clothes colleagues in balaclavas, met the protestors with teargas and bullets. On 8 July, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights was reporting a death toll of 31, with 107 injured and two abducted.
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