Gen Z takes over the streets in Kenya, blocking unpopular finance bill

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In a move that surprised observers, Kenya's President William Ruto has agreed to scrap a highly controversial finance bill that sparked two days of police violence

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Kenya owes billions of dollars to Western countries and the International Monetary Fund as well as China, to whom it owes $5.7 billion. The proposed taxes would have affected every segment of society but especially students, the unemployed, poor, and working-class people. The bill proposed taxing everything from income and fuel to essential items like eggs, sanitary napkins, and disposable diapers.

Yet, for many Kenyans, the deficit hinges not on taxation, but on rampant corruption at every level of government, financial mismanagement, and lavish consumption among political elites.

 

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