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WORLD NEWS Saturday 14 OctOber 2017

Kenya police shoot dead 2 opposition protesters

By TOM ODULA allowed government sup-
Associated Press porters into the banned
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — protest areas and that they
Police in Kenya shot and were attacking opposition
killed two opposition pro- supporters.
testers who allegedly threw Opposition leaders have
rocks at a police station, called for daily demonstra-
while police used tear gas tions.
on rallies in the capital and Odinga, whose legal chal-
elsewhere demanding re- lenge led the court to nul-
forms ahead of the new lify President Uhuru Kenyat-
presidential election this ta’s re-election, this week
month. said he has left the race
At the same time, opposi- because no reforms to
tion leader Raila Odinga electoral commission have
told The Associated Press been made.
he’s willing to return to the But in an interview in Lon-
race if the government is don, Odinga told the AP
“ready to do business and he’s willing to return if that
deal” on reforms. changes. If the govern-
Three other protesters had ment and electoral com-
gunshot wounds in the mission are “ready to do
deadly confrontation in business and deal, we are
the Odinga stronghold of Riot police officers arrest a National Super Alliance, Nasa, supporter in Kisumu, Kenya, Friday ready to jump in the field,”
Oct. 13, 2017. Opposition protesters demanding reforms ahead of the new election took place in
Siaya County in western the capital Nairobi and the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, in western Kenya, as well as in the he said.
Kenya, Bondo police chief coastal city of Mombasa. The election commission
Paul Kiarie said. (AP Photo) has said the new vote will
A statement by national legislator Abdulswamad onstrations since the results fraught repeat presidential go ahead with all eight
police spokesman George Shariff Nassir. of the August election were election, is likely to become candidates who ran in Au-
Kinoti said a crowd of The government on Thurs- announced. a basis for heavy-handed gust and that Odinga is still
about 2,000 people threw day banned the protests, The Supreme Court an- police crackdowns,” said considered a candidate
rocks at the police station citing “imminent danger of nulled that vote, citing ir- Michelle Kagari, a deputy as he has not formally with-
and robbed shops, lead- breach of peace.” regularities, and called for regional director with Am- drawn.
ing to the shooting, which Human rights groups pro- a new one. It is set for Oct. nesty International. No candidate aside from
is being investigated. tested, with some pointing 26. Opposition coalition Chief Odinga and Kenyatta re-
The demonstrations defied out that police have killed “This ban, announced just Executive Officer Norman ceived even 1 percent of
a new government ban on at least 37 people in dem- two weeks ahead of a Magaya said police have the vote.q
opposition protests in the
central business districts of
Kenya’s three largest cities, Nigerian court convicts 45 in Boko Haram mass trials
while concerns rose again
about election-related vio- By SAM OLUKOYA from civil courts, while the the extremist group that described malnutrition,
lence in East Africa’s larg- Associated Press barracks are being used for has killed more than 20,000 mistreatment and deaths
est economy. LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — security reasons. people during its eight- in the facilities.
The State Department A Nigerian court has The 45 people were year insurgency. Boko Boko Haram’s attacks have
urged Kenya’s security convicted 45 Boko Haram sentenced to between Haram has yet to comment spilled into neighboring
forces not to use “unnec- members in the largest three and 31 years in prison, publicly on the mass trials. countries and displaced
essary force” and called mass trial in the Islamic the country’s information Nigeria has arrested more than 2.4 million
for demonstrations to be extremist group’s history. minister said in a statement thousands of suspected people in the Lake Chad
peaceful. The closed-door Friday. Another 468 Boko Haram members in region, creating a vast
In the capital, Nairobi, po- proceedings have raised suspects were released, but recent years, and military humanitarian crisis. Some
lice fired tear gas as op- the concerns of human the court ordered that they detention facilities are fighters have allied with the
position supporters tried to rights groups about undergo deradicalization overcrowded. Human Islamic State group.
march to the central busi- whether the trials of the programs. rights groups say most While Nigeria’s military has
ness district. In Kisumu city, 1,669 people will be fair. The government has not of those detained have arrested many Boko Haram
local television showed These are the first results of said what exactly the been picked up at random top fighters and last year
running battles with stone- the mass trials that began hundreds of suspects are and without reasonable declared the extremist
throwing youth. early this week at a military charged with. suspicion, including women group had been “crushed,”
Police also used tear gas in barracks in northern Nigeria. Nigeria is trying to show it and children. leader Abubakar Shekau
Mombasa, said opposition The judges are drafted is making progress against Former detainees have remains elusive.q