Four people were killed at a stadium in Nairobi when Kenyan security forces fired shots to disperse a large crowd that had gathered at the stadium where Kenyan opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga was lying in state. Odinga died Wednesday in India where he was receiving medical treatment.
Odinga ran for president in 2022 and narrowly lost to William Ruto. Odinga alleged fraud, but the election results were ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court. Since then, Ruto has turned increasingly repressive in his response to youth-led protests in the country. Despite having promised to listen to Kenyan youth in his 2022 campaign, Ruto has proved to be intolerant of dissent and an unwilling interlocutor in “the ongoing conversation between those who govern and those who are governed,” Nanjala Nyabola wrote in WPR in July.
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