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How unrelenting youth protesters forced once in two-decades move

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Anti-riot police officers rough up one of the youths during the country-wide anti-tax protests on June 2, 2024. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

It is his reluctance that mostly stood out as he faced pressure for action by Kenya's youngest adults.

Sacking Cabinet Secretaries, President William Ruto said during an X Space engagement, was not as easy as the Gen Z and Millennial protesters imagined.

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