{"id":38036,"date":"2026-06-25T14:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38036"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:47:41","slug":"kenyan-police-fire-gas-to-disperse-protesters-in-the-capital","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyan-police-fire-gas-to-disperse-protesters-in-the-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan police fire gas to disperse protesters in the capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan \u200bpolice fired \u200cteargas on Thursday \u200bto disperse \u200bprotesters that had \u2060gathered \u200bnear the \u200bmain police station in \u200bthe \u200bcapital Nairobi after \u200ca \u2060march in memory of protesters \u200bkilled \u200bin \u2060massive anti-government \u200bdemonstrations \u200btwo \u2060years ago, a \u2060<em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0\u200bwitness \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Kenyans took to the streets on Thursday under heavy security in memory of protesters killed two years \u200cago when massive anti-government demonstrations erupted in Nairobi over proposed tax hikes and the surging cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers had planned remembrance marches in the coastal city of Mombasa and the capital Nairobi to mark the anniversary of the June 25, 2024 unrest, when protests escalated dramatically and protesters breached parliament grounds before a security crackdown left dozens dead.<\/p>\n<p>On the \u200beve of the marches, Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen warned that anyone seeking to engage \u2060in &#8220;chaos, looting, destroy property, disrupt businesses, or commit any other criminal acts&#8221; would face &#8220;the full force of the \u200blaw,&#8221; adding that investigators were already looking into reports of people mobilising gangs and securing weapons ahead of \u200bthe anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38037,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-38036","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Anti-government \u200bdemonstrations","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38038,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38036\/revisions\/38038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}