๐ฐ๐ช๐บ๐ธ | Kenyan police shot dead a protester as hundreds demonstrated against a US quarantine facility in Nanyuki.
The facility is for US nationals exposed to Ebola. Not for Kenyans.
The protester was shot in the head and at least 19 people were arrested, according to Reuters, at the site where the US is building a 50-bed unit at Laikipia Air Base.
Kenya has no Ebola case of its own; the unit would hold US nationals exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. It runs on roughly KSh 1.68 billion โ about USD 13 million in US aid.
This is not the first killing: on 1 June police shot two protesters dead and arrested 31. Demonstrators call their country a "dumping ground" and have vowed to march until the plan is scrapped.
Washington says it "cannot and will not allow" any cases to enter US territory. Kenyan President William Ruto calls the deal "mutually beneficial" โ while his own police keep killing the Kenyans who refuse it.
๐จ๐จ| BREAKING: The US say they have ๐๐๐๐๐๐ Somali referee Omar Artan entry for the World Cup over alleged links to 'suspected terror organisation members'. ๐ซ๐บ๐ธ
If Africa's top referee is inadmissible in America, who qualifies? Many are calling it racism.
Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was denied entry into the US "due to vetting concerns" even though he had a 3-month multiple entry visa and was traveling on a diplomatic passport
๐จ๐จ| NEW: Somali referee Omar Artan reveals he was interrogated for ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ by US customs, detained, then deported to Turkey. ๐ณ๐ธ๐ด
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Itโs the Government Burning Schools
Itโs the government burning schools. No doubt.
Remember in 2024 how @CJMarthaKoome staged the burning of her own office to disrupt protests in 2024? And how she also staged the burning of Kikuyu Law Courts specifically to exploit anti-terrorism laws and justify detaining protesters without trial in 2025?
Do you remember the Meru residents who were cordoned off by police during protests, only to watch Magunaโs Supermarket being set ablaze right before their eyes?
The regime is clearly ready to do anything - no matter how diabolical - to sabotage this yearโs protests. Theyโre even willing to import Ebola into Kenya.
The stakes must be extremely high. I wonder why.