Agence France-Presse :
A protester was shot dead by police in western Kenya on Monday, on a day of clashes .
between opposition supporters and security forces, according to a police statement.
The police statement stated that the officers, after depleting their stock of tear gas, “fired live ammunition,”.
which led to the death of student William Mayangi, after demonstrators threw stones at the police, “which damaged.
the windows of ten houses and the police station” in Misano, one of the strongholds of the opposition.
Clashes broke out earlier Monday between demonstrators against the high cost of living and the police.
especially in front of government offices in Nairobi. Clashes also broke out in Kisumu (west), Odinga’s other stronghold.
This is the first major unrest since the presidential election.
Kenyan police fired tear gas in Nairobi on Monday at the convoy of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who has called for demonstrations against inflation, according to AFP correspondents, in the midst of a political dispute between him and the Kenyan president.
This came after the authorities announced the previous day banning such demonstrations.
Raila Odinga always maintains that the closely contested presidential election of August 9, 2022 was “stolen” from him and that William Ruto’s government was “illegitimate”.
He was planning to hold a press conference in a hotel in the Kenyan capital, but the conference did not take place and the police impeded the passage of the exhibitions convoy and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse it.