Hawker presumed dead after he was shot by police is alive and in hospital, activists demand accountability
The 22-year-old Kariuki, a hawker like his father, was holding a packet of face masks and is believed to have been caught up in a confrontation with two officers in Nairobi as hundreds of protesters clashed with police. One officer, who had concealed his face with a mask, shot him in the head as he walked away.
Goon city: Rogue police officer arrested over shooting of civilian during Kenya protest
The June 8 death of Albert Ojwang, 31, has been a lightning rod for public discontent, a year after more than 60 people were killed during protests initially touched off by proposed tax increases.
Sudanese army has freed Khartoum from RSF rebels’ grip but extrajudicial killings of ‘co-operators’ persist
In some places, cholera has broken out and even in areas now held by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their allies, residents have had to grapple with the fear of RSF drone strikes or of the paramilitary group returning to the city.
Fresh round of dissent breaks out in Kenya as public protests protection of senior police officer implicated in murder
A government pathologist has refuted the police’s account that the blogger’s injuries were self-inflicted, saying the deceased had “head injury, neck compression and other injuries spread all over the body that are pointing towards assault.”
Vehicles burnt in protests as pressure piles on senior police to quit over death of blogger
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority watchdog has launched an investigation, while the European Union and the United States have called for a transparent probe into the blogger’s death.
Under pressure Kenya President Ruto finally concedes blogger died ‘at the hands of police’
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority, the police watchdog, has launched an investigation and on Wednesday named five police officers who arrested Ojwang in Homa Bay County and escorted him to Nairobi’s central police station.
