Police deployed heavily in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Wednesday ahead of expected countrywide protests called for by the main opposition leader against a raft of tax hikes.
last Friday during a first round of demonstrations against the taxes, which are contained in a finance bill signed into law by President William Ruto last month.ordered that implementation of the legislation be suspended pending a legal challenge, but the government has raised petrol prices anyway.
A Reuters reporter in Nairobi saw police trucks with water cannons near the city's Central Business District, where the streets were unusually quiet. Kenya's police chief said on Tuesday that no protests would be allowed since organisers had not informed the authorities of their intention to demonstrate.
Those repeatedly degenerated into clashes between police and protesters and led civic leaders to warn against a return to the ethnically-charged violence that has plagued Kenya in the past.
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