Police tear-gas protesters in Kenya as cabinet sworn in

Kenyan police have fired tear gas to disperse small groups of anti-government protesters in the capital, Nairobi, demanding better governance as a new cabinet was sworn in.

 

Report says businesses in the city were closed and public transport

paralysed as police mounted roadblocks on major roads to bar protesters from accessing the central business district.

The demonstrations are a continuation of months-long anti-tax protests that have since morphed into calls for President William Ruto to resign. The youth-led protests have already forced the president to withdraw planned additional taxes and dissolve his cabinet.

Mr Ruto has appointed senior opposition officials to his cabinet, in a move to quell growing public anger against his government.

He gave four posts to the opposition including the powerful finance and energy ministries.