Kenyan police fired tear gas on Monday to disperse opponents demonstrating against inflation outside government offices in Nairobi, an AFP correspondent said.
The demonstrators for their part threw stones at the riot police and around twenty people were arrested, including two opposition MPs, according to journalists on the spot.
Demonstration prohibited
In the capital's largest slum, Kibera, protesters set tires on fire.
This protest movement against inflation, which rose in February over one year to 9.2% in the East African country, was banned on Sunday by the authorities for disrespect of the legal deadline for filing.
He had been summoned by the opponent Raila Odinga, leader of the Azimio la Umoja party, who continues to claim that the very tight presidential election of August 9, 2022 had been "stolen" from him
and
that the government of William Ruto is "
illegitimate
".
The organizers had planned to march to State House, the presidential palace.