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🇹🇿 “We’re locked inside like rats,” says man filming empty streets in Dar es Salaam after the Tanzanian government outlawed Independence Day protests and ordered people to stay indoors
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Kwamchetsi Makokha
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Kwamchetsi Makokha
@kwamchetsi
Journalist, critic, satirist
Nairobi Hill Katılım Eylül 2010
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I've just run into the soft copy of this newspaper
tisa.co.ke/peoples-audit-…
It's an audit report by Okoa Uchumi.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS!
Nanyuki Billionaire🇰🇪@lewis_ngunyi
I've been handed this free newspaper while stuck in traffic. 32 pages of the comprehensive story of our country's economic crisis. Good lord we have a problem!! I'm not yet done reading through, but if you've seen it, you should read it.
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We do not recognize Samia Suluhu as the President of Tanzania because the process that brought her into office was marred by intimidation, illegal interference, and extreme violence.
See evidence of the Tanzania massacre here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
Comprehensive visual documentation of the 2025 Tanzania massacre is available to verified researchers, journalists, human rights organizations, and legal professionals: ukwelinahaki.org
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Dictatorship is taking root in Tanzania because customers have paid for years’ supplies of lithium, graphite, nickel, helium and gold which only dictators can deliver. nation.africa/kenya/blogs-op…
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Curfew: /ka:fju:/ the act of turning homes into prisons to enable police, army and other thugs to target civilians with violence as collective punishment for holding political views against the status quo. Tanzania will rise.
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@dnjaga1 I like this out of the box thinking. Since women have been historically marginalized and excluded, a 60% commitment would signal change.
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Why 50%? Why not more? I believe are more interested in service delivery- even if whole cabinet is made up of women.
In any case, experience with current women leaders doesnt make this promise anything exciting
David Maraga@dkmaraga
My government will have 50% women.
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How old were you when you found out that Reverend @timothynjoya was a state-sponsored activist on Daniel Arap Moi’s payroll, staging dramatic arrests and beatings to scare off potential protesters with the threat of such brutal repression - much like conman activist @bonifacemwangi does for William Ruto today and did for Uhuru Kenyatta in the past?
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@paulinenjoroge Who allowed him? No, he must come for permission
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Why does Babu Owino teaching math online, where he pulled 1.6 million views upset some people so much?
How does it harm anyone when the Hon. Member for Embakasi and Nairobi’s incoming Governor uses his free time to help students revise?
If public leaders spend their spare hours adding value, surely that’s something to applaud, not attack.
Wivu ni kitu mbaya sana. They even forgot what they had posted less than 4 years ago.
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The late Dr. Crispin Odhiambo Mbai, chair of the devolution committee, who was assassinated in the middle of the Bomas Constitutional Conference, is THE FATHER OF DEVOLUTION in Kenya. Let us be honest and stop distorting history by elevating imposters over genuine heroes.
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The Kenya Human Rights Commission mourns the passing of Raila Odinga, who "played a key role in advancing human rights and democratic governance" throughout Kenya's modern history. khrc.or.ke/press-release/…
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#PressStatement
Three years into Kenya Kwanza's regime, the country faces a constitutional and human rights crisis marked by state violence, corruption, and institutional capture. The promise of a people-centred “hustler” govt has collapsed into authoritarian rule.
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.@katibainstitute and KHRC have filed Petition No. HCCHRPET E480 OF 2025 at the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi (Milimani) to challenge the nomination of Dr. Duncan Oburu Ojwang as Chairperson of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR).
Article 250(11) of the Constitution of Kenya is at the heart of the Petition, which expressly prohibits the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of any independent commission from being of the same gender. The current Vice-Chairperson, Dr. Raymond Nyeris of KNCHR, is male.
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@RobertAlai @ICJKenya @thekhrc It was from ICJ Kenya office that legal aid was extended to you when you were arrested and charged. You complained bitterly to me at the time that the organization should have sent the money to you rather than the lawyer. Of course I told you, No sir!
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I wish you issued a statement when Uhuru did even worse to me and sent to court with treachery and terrorism charges because of political differences.
I wish you were consistent. @ICJKenya @thekhrc lack to consistency needed in unbiased players.
You are dishonest and rogue. It has to end.
ICJ Kenya@ICJKenya
JOINT STATEMENT: As patriotic Kenyans, Pan Africanists and human rights defenders we are deeply alarmed by the growing pattern of arbitrary arrests and trumped-up charges targeting innocent youth, and anyone who dares to speak out in Kenya. What began as targeted persecution of young protesters demanding accountability has metastasized into a full-scale assault on Kenya's democracy. 🧵
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Courts must stand up to be counted nation.africa/kenya/blogs-op…
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Kakan Maiyo was grabbed by 3 ununiformed men from his office on Kimathi St yesterday, taken to Capitol Hill before transfer to DCI HQ and then Muthaiga. vm.tiktok.com/ZMSg99C7t/ This post is shared via TikTok Lite. Download TikTok Lite to enjoy more posts: tiktok.com/tiktoklite
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We need your assistance in identifying these individuals. They were part of a state-hired militia that attacked people at the KHRC office yesterday during a press conference held by Kenyan mothers. The mothers were calling for an end to arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings that occur during protests. You can watch the CCTV footage here and assist in identifying others:
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KHRC@thekhrc
At exactly 2:08 pm EAT today, hired goons stormed our office—sent by the state to silence dissent. They violently disrupted a press conference by Kenyan mothers calling for an end to arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings targeting protesters ahead of Saba Saba demonstrations. Saba Saba has been marked annually as a symbol of resistance and civic courage in ongoing struggles. This was a calculated escalation in the campaign of intimidation by the William Ruto regime against the KHRC—following the extraordinary illegal rendition of our staff Martin Mavenjina—and human rights defenders holding it accountable for gross human rights violations. We will not be silenced! The Constitution protects our right to protest and speak out. See you on the streets on Monday!
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Kwamchetsi Makokha retweetledi
At exactly 2:08 pm EAT today, hired goons stormed our office—sent by the state to silence dissent.
They violently disrupted a press conference by Kenyan mothers calling for an end to arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings targeting protesters ahead of Saba Saba demonstrations.
Saba Saba has been marked annually as a symbol of resistance and civic courage in ongoing struggles.
This was a calculated escalation in the campaign of intimidation by the William Ruto regime against the KHRC—following the extraordinary illegal rendition of our staff Martin Mavenjina—and human rights defenders holding it accountable for gross human rights violations.
We will not be silenced!
The Constitution protects our right to protest and speak out. See you on the streets on Monday!
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