{"id":122181,"date":"2023-07-19T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122181"},"modified":"2023-07-19T18:10:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T22:10:33","slug":"bbc-kenya-azimio-demonstrations-two-dead-in-kenya-anti-government-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122181","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Kenya Azimio demonstrations: Two dead in Kenya anti-government protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed on Wednesday in clashes between police and protesters in the Kenyan city of Kisimu.<\/p>\n<p>Tear gas has also been fired in the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa at those protesting over the high cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Several people were injured after being shot as police battled protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya has closed schools in the country&#8217;s two main cities as a three-day opposition protest kicked off with demonstrators confronting police.<\/p>\n<p>Many businesses have remained shut over fears of looting, with people scared of getting caught in violent clashes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-66244862\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kenya Azimio demonstrations: Two dead in Kenya anti-government protests <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/801HrjOGTz\">https:\/\/t.co\/801HrjOGTz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kamal Mustafa \u272a (@MeKamalMustafa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeKamalMustafa\/status\/1681780847274278912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed on Wednesday in clashes between police and protesters in the Kenyan city of Kisimu. Tear gas has also been fired in the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa at those protesting over the high<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122181\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenya-africa","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122184,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122181\/revisions\/122184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}