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Added on the 01/04/2020 17:29:16 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Police fire teargas to disperse traders and buyers on a street market in the Kenyan city of Kisumu, after the government ordered a shutdown to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. IMAGES
Seventy children were still missing following a blaze that destroyed a school dormitory in central Kenya and killed at least 17 young pupils, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says in a statement in Endarasha where the tragedy took place overnight. SOUNDBITE
Kenyan police say a serial killer suspect who escaped from a Nairobi police station may have been "aided by insiders". A manhunt has been launched to rearrest the escapees, including the serial killer suspect Collins Jumaisi, Acting Inspector General of Kenya's Police, Gilbert Masengeli said from outside from outside the police station in the Kenyan capital's Gigiri district where the escape occured earlier on Tuesday. SOUNDBITE
Kenyan investigators gather at a police station in the capital Nairobi where earlier a man who police say confessed to murdering 42 women escaped from a police cell, along with a dozen other detainees. Collins Jumaisi, 33, described by police as a "vampire, a psychopath", was arrested last month after the horrific discovery of mutilated bodies in a garbage dump in a slum in the Kenyan capital. IMAGES
Anti-government protestors in the capital's central business district are being quickly dispersed as police fire tear gas, and make arrests, in a show of force. The East African nation,has been rocked by weeks of sometimes deadly protests against Ruto's two-year-old administration, mostly led by young Gen-Z Kenyans. IMAGES