Author: By Abdimalik Hajir

12-year-old among victims of police shooting during Eid meat donation chaos

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A section view of IFO 2 refugee camp in Dadaab. [File, Standard] Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, are nursing gunshot wounds at Garissa Referral Hospital after allegedly being shot by police officers during a meat donation scuffle at the Ifo refugee camp. The victims—three refugees and a Kenyan working at the Kenya Red Cross Hospital—claim that police opened fire indiscriminately on crowds waiting to receive meat distributed following Eid al-Adha celebrations on Sunday. “My son was playing with other children near the police station when he was shot. Boda boda operators brought him home while he was bleeding profusely,”…

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Duale dismisses Gachagua's new party, calls it a tribal outfit

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Health CS Aden Duale  before the National Assembly’s Health committee to consider Budget Estimates FY 2025/26 at Parliament buildings, Nairobi. May 14th,2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale on Saturday, May 17, criticised former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s new party, labeling it an attempt to divide the country. Speaking during a cultural festival in Garissa, the CS asserted that President William Ruto’s only “crime” is his commitment to unifying Kenya and ensuring equitable development across all communities. “We are seeing people forming ethnic-based parties to balkanize and divide our people. Today we have people of different ethnic groups performing…

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