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A NEW GENERATION ANNOUNCES THEIR PRESENCE!

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  KENYA: A NEW GENERATION ANNOUNCES THEIR ARRIVAL IN POLITICS. In the past 4 weeks, Kenya has experienced a wave of protests mainly aimed at anti-government policies and new tax proposals. The protests, whose major take away was the occupation of Kenya's parliament on the 25th of June 2024, captured the attention of everyone around the world. Not the efficiency to organise and mobilise, but the drivers of this new waves of protests who are majorly young boys and girls of Kenya. Notably, the Gen-Z generation(1996-2008). These protests which started with the aim of rejecting the government's proposed "Finance Bill 2024," in which many new policies were termed as controversial.   However, the protest turned into anti-government protests after the public and most of the youths expressed a lack of confidence in the government and its top leadership. This was because of the government's poor response on how they handled the demonstrations, with multiple human rights org...