Calls Grow for President Ruto to Step Down

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The most prominent events this week: General anger in Kenya It grows while President William Roto invites the police to shoot the demonstrators in the leg, and US President Donald Trump is looking for a strike Migrant deals With African countries, the former Nigerian president Muhammadu Bouhaari He dies at the age of 82.

Calls grow to prolong Ruto

More than 100 people have been killed in the various protests led by young people in Kenya since June 2024, amid a high resentment of the government of President William Roto.

The movement began last summer to protest against a funding bill that has now ended, which would have raised taxes and expanded to include calls for Roto’s prolongation. During his 2022 election campaign, Roto threw himself as a “impossible” that supports the poor Kenyan. But the youth’s unemployment and the cost of living are still high, and the police brutality has only increased discontent.

A new wave of demonstrations began last month after the death of blogger Albert Oujuang in the police seizure. It was swamped again on July 7, which was the thirty -fifth anniversary of the Sapa Saba march (meaning “7/7” in Swahiliya) that helped put an end to the rule of one parties in Kenya.

Roto ignited a new anger last week when the police ordered the shooting of the demonstrators in the leg who were betraying the business. “Anyone who goes to burn the property of others, a person like this should be shot and go to the hospital on his way to court,” said Roto. “They should not kill the person, but they must strike the legs to break them.”

The United opposition, an alliance of at least six opposition parties, threatened to transfer Roto to the International Criminal Court (ICC). “If it is not clear before, it is clear that the police have become a judge, a arbitration paradise, and a beauty, a death squad in the uniform,” the United opposition said in a statement.

A long time before he was a president, Roto faced crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court in the wake of allegations that he incited and planned ethnic violence after losing it at the time, Rila Odinga, disputed elections in 2007. The court brought down the case in 2016 due to lack of evidence. This is the post-election crisis-which included police violence and ethnic killing-connected to 1500 people who were killed and 300,000 displaced people.

Amid the current police campaign, the opposition coalition also started a campaign calling on the Kenyans to boycott companies associated with the Roto Kenya Kwanza coalition. The Kenya National Human Rights Committee noticed criminal gangs with a whip, wooden clubs, and machines that operate along with police officers during the July 7 protests, when an estimated 38 people were killed and 130 wounded.

Among the losses, the 12 -year -old was a stray bullet while she was at home in Kimo Province, outside Nairobi. Her killing prompted additional protests in the area, according to the local media.

Young people in Kenya say they are determined to continue protest until they see political change. The upcoming elections in the country are scheduled to be held in 2027.

next week

Tuesday 15 July, to Saturday, July 19: The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, on a three -country round in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa with a trading delegation in the United Kingdom.

Thursday, July 17, to Friday, July 18: Financial ministers meet G-20 and the central bank governors near Derban, South Africa.

Friday, July 18: Nigeria opposite Zambia and Morocco for Mali in the quarter -finals of the African Nations Cup for women, hosted by Morocco.

Saturday, July 19: Algeria against Ghana and South Africa against Senegal in the Women’s Nations Cup.

What we watch

Definitions and deportation. The transaction approach to the American program, Donald Trump, was shown in diplomacy in Africa in full at the mini -summit that he held last week with Gabon leaders, Guinea -Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal.

The summary of Africa also predicted last week, Trump urged West and Central African leaders to accept deportation citizens in the third countries. “They are not forcing anyone, but they want us to know that this is the anxiety they have, and they ask how we can contribute,” Liberian President Joseph Bouakai told local media on Friday. In a media briefing, Trump also indicated that the five nations may not be subject to high definitions.

So far, the Trump administration has already sent eight immigrants from the United States to southern Sudan, and only one of them was a citizen from South Sudan. This week, Semaya K. Kumba Foreign Minister arrived in Washington for high -level talks, which many analysts expect to focus on deportations.

Meanwhile, Nigerian Foreign Minister Youssef Tujjar said on Thursday that his country will not give in to “great pressure on African countries to accept the Venezuelan to deport it from the United States, some of them directly from prison.” He said Nigeria, which includes 230 million people, has “sufficient problems”.

The Sudan war is intensifying. Sudanese, Libyan and Egyptian officials in Cairo met last Wednesday to discuss cross -border attacks with Sudan army clashes with military rapid support forces (RSF) in the third year of the country’s civil war. RSF recently seized the Sudanese-Libya and Egypt Triangle, which is rich in natural resources.

The commander of the army and its actual leader, Abd al-Fah al-Bayershan, accused the Libyan Eastern Commander, Khalifa Haftar, of supporting RSF-calling Hudar.

Meanwhile, Nazat Khanm Nazim Khan, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, said on Thursday that the court “has reasonable reasons” for the conclusion that war crimes and crimes against humanity are committed in Darfur. Khan, the United Nations Security Council, told women and girls to be specified races are goals of sexual violence in the region.

As a result of the top of the BRICS. On the sidelines of the Brex meetings last week in Brazil, the Development Bank in China and the Development Bank in South Africa signed a $ 293 million loan agreement.

The deal is the first of its kind among the two banks, which are members of the mechanism of cooperation between the BRICS banks. Energy, infrastructure, water, health, and manufacturing projects will be funded throughout Africa.

The Nigerian leader dies. Former Nigerian President Mohamedou Bouhari died on Sunday at the age of 82 in London and was buried in the northern state of Katsina on Tuesday.

Bouhaari led Nigeria twice-in 1983-1985 as a military leader after a coup and again from 2015 to 2023 as a democratic elected president. By the end of his last term, Bouhary fell because of his popularity with the Nigerians, who accused him of heading the spread of insecurity, high levels of unemployment, and killing young people who are in #Endsars protests to combat the police in the protests in 2020.

This week in books

Pen award winner. The Sudanese Scottish author at night, Apolla, won the Pen Pen Pen Award for 2025 for her novels that explore the topics of faith, immigration, displacement and the lives of Muslim women. Apollila, who grew up in Khartoum, lived in Aberdeen, Scotland, since 1990. It includes its six novels and collections of my short story Translatorand Elsewhere, the houseAnd recently, River SpiritIt was published in 2023.

She said: “For a person like me, a Sudanese Muslim immigrant who writes from a religious perspective looking at the limits of secular tolerance, this recognition feels that he is really important.” “It brings expansion and depth to the meaning of freedom of expression, whose stories are heard.”

The Pen Pinter Award annually is awarded to the writer who lives in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Commonwealth, or the previous Commonwealth countries that present its work, in the words of British theater writer Harold Pinter, a “indifferent, unhelpful” look at the world.

Publishing industry in Africa. The value of the book industry, which costs $ 7 billion in Africa, may be $ 18.5 billion annually if governments are implementing policies to support the authors, strengthen local publishers, and strengthen readers, according to a new report for UNESCO.

About 90 percent of African countries have not exactly implemented laws that support the book industry; Meanwhile, the enforcement of copyright and legal deposits remains weak.

What we read

Hospital patients are “detained”. A joint investigation by the International Federation of Journalists Investigation and Mother Jones It is claimed that the World Bank financing for hospitals aimed at profit led to the arrest of the patient and “crushing debts” for families in East Africa.

Since 2009, Finance Corp (IFC) has held an investment arm in the bank, a partnership with private stock companies that invested its money in Kenyan and Ugandan hospitals. “[P]The report found that the processes of improving returns for investors contributed to increasing the costs of treatment and reducing access to “, and when patients were unable to pay their bills,” some hospitals have taken the patients illegally until one -month months. “

In March 2024, World Bank President Ajay Banga apologized for dealing with the Foundation with a large -scale sexual assault for children in Kenyan Schools for profit that was funded through IFC.

Keep football for women. With the start of the Nations Cup in Africa in Morocco, Harlem Lamine argues in Africa is a country The leaders of the continent should work to legitimize women’s football on the world stage and preserve the legacy of the players through digital archives.

“Women were always playing, winning, and emerging, but not much.