insert_link Africa Kenya protests: Gen Z shows the power of digital activism – driving change from screens to the streets By Job Mwaura, University of the Witwatersrand Nationwide demonstrations have erupted in Kenya over a controversial tax bill. The Finance Bill 2024, initially presented to parliament in May, has sparked discontent with an increase in an array of taxes and levies for Kenyans. The mass protests, initially organised in the capital city, Nairobi, have spread across the country. Demonstrations have taken place in […] todayJune 24, 2024 48
insert_link World Pro-Palestinian protestors arrested at Stanford after occupying president’s office More than a dozen pro-Palestinian protestors have been arrested at Stanford University after barricading themselves inside an administration building. The student demonstrators are demanding that the university divest from companies that they say support the Israeli military. Reporting for us is Ira Spitzer . todayJune 6, 2024 15