Rattled by violent unemployed youth protests, Kenya moots NYOTA programme to pre-empt restiveness
Cabinet Secretary Salim Mvurya also announced that NYOTA will be fully rolled out during the International Youth Week in August, noting that by then, many applicants will have been certified to begin receiving support. Fikirini echoed the cabinet secretary’s sentiments and urged youth to make use of the available opportunities.
New survey shows Kenya private sector activity declined in July following public protests
Kenyan youth-led marches continued after Ruto withdrew the tax legislation, with protesters calling for the president to resign and an end to what they called widespread government corruption and inefficiencies.
How political homophobia nudged Ugandan president to use homosexuality law as a tool to repel youth protests
Unlike in Russia where political homophobia has been institutionalised as a state strategy in that country’s politics, there is no evidence that this is the case in Uganda despite the political order being in congruence with the population against homosexuality. It would therefore be wrong to gang the youth who demonstrated against corruption and the corrupt as being pons for the homosexuality movement in the West and its small link in Uganda.
