Kenyan police fire teargas at angry pro-opposition demonstrators
By Reuters
29 October 2017 |
9:00 am
Kenyan police descend on the Nairobi slum of Kawangware where opposition supporters went on the rampage after shops and businesses were torched and homes looted.
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