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Kenyan protests to end after Friday
Kenya's opposition street protests will end "for now" after demonstrations planned on Friday, a spokesman said.
- Agencies
- Published: 09:27 January 18, 2008
- Image Credit: Gulf News Archive
- On Thursday, the second day of protest, the Kenyan opposition accused police of shooting dead seven people.
Nairobi: Kenya's opposition street protests will end "for now" after demonstrations planned on Friday, a spokesman said.
The opposition has called for three days of banned rallies to protest President Mwai Kibaki's re-election.
However, Kenyan police fired teargas at several hundred primarily Muslim demonstrators protesting in the port of Mombasa on Friday against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
The protest followed Friday prayers in the main mosque, on the last of three days of rallies called by the opposition but banned by police. Police also fired teargas at Muslim protesters near the main mosque in the capital Nairobi.
On Thursday, the second day of protest, the opposition accused police of shooting dead seven people during clashes.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who said Kibaki cheated in the December 27 ballot, said that police shot dead the seven in Nairobi.
"Police are shooting innocent civilians at will ... the government has turned this country into a killing field of innocents," he told reporters.
Police had no immediate comment.
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