| 5,629,500 |
-0.41667 |
36.95 |
Kenya |
|
Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in Nyeri closed indefinitely following a protest by the students against the alleged incompetence of their Vice Chancellor. The over 500 students shattered window panes in lecture halls; destroyed two university buses, a private vehicle and the students' welfare building; set a thicket in the school on fire and harassed motorists along Nyeri-Nyahururu highway. They later engaged armed police officers in running battles before they were dispersed with teargas. A police officer reported an injury. There were additional riots at Karatina University, also in Nyeri. |
| 5,629,505 |
1.16922 |
36.09549 |
Kenya |
|
Suspected local tribesmen attack a police post in Kapedo. Five dead, including three police officers. |
| 5,629,508 |
-4.63598 |
39.20782 |
Kenya |
|
Residents of Maguguni protest along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway for five hours to protest grabbing of the land by CORD corporation leader Raila Odinga. CORD is apparently interested in petroleum prospects on the plot. |
| 5,629,511 |
0.51667 |
35.28333 |
Kenya |
|
University of Eldoret students took to the streets in protest over a directive that they sit special exams. The students claimed that they were not ready for the exams and that they were not given time to prepare. |
| 5,629,515 |
-0.45357 |
39.6461 |
Kenya |
|
Twelve people were injured, four of them critically at Bula Sheikh in Garissa town when unknown assailants hurled a grenade at a shop. |
| 5,629,520 |
-4.05 |
39.66667 |
Kenya |
|
A group of Muslim youth forcibly overtake a mosque in Mombasa, and ejected its moderate imam and management committee. Injuries/causalities not known. |
| 5,629,523 |
0.03333 |
34.71667 |
Kenya |
|
Residents of Majengo town in Vihiga county protest, demanding an audience with the Governor of the region to express their grievance over a recent spate of robberies. |
| 5,629,526 |
-0.49886 |
37.28031 |
Kenya |
|
Mutige Secondary School students walked out in protest against the administration's failure to address their grievances (the students want medical attention for the injured, new toilets, transport and leakage in classrooms and dormitories fixed). The more than 200 students marched to the county's headquarters in Kerugoya. |
| 5,629,529 |
-3.22 |
40.12 |
Kenya |
|
Residents of the Milano area of Malindi town demonstrated against the buying of land by a business tycoon. |
| 5,629,535 |
3.71667 |
34.86667 |
Kenya |
|
Nine refugees are known to have been killed and a number of others wounded in days of fighting in the Kakuma refugee camp. The fighting started after an attempted rape of a nine-year-old Nuer girl by a Dinka boy. Though the fighting mainly centered between the two South Sudanese actors, several others from Central Africa were also involved. |
