A new finance law with bread VAT and phone-activation duty revives the 2024 grievance; for the first time Ruto signs before June 25, the date that has met him with protests every year
Ruto (Kenya)
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A blogger died in a Nairobi police cell in June 2025; a year on, the murder trial of six officers halts because the station's CCTV was deliberately formatted hours after his death
A KNCHR reparations framework verifies over 1,000 victims of 2017-2025 state violence, but bars looting and 'ordinary criminal' victims and withholds the names, drawing daily picketing