{"id":55382,"date":"2026-06-26T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/kenyans-mark-two-years-since-gen-z-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:05:33","slug":"kenyans-mark-two-years-since-gen-z-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/kenyans-mark-two-years-since-gen-z-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans mark two years since Gen Z protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Families of those killed during Kenya\u2019s 2024 anti-government protests returned to parliament two years on, to remember their loved ones and demand justice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With central Nairobi under heavy security, parents and activists laid flowers on police barricades outside parliament, saying they are still waiting for accountability for those who died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite road closures and a large police deployment, small groups of protesters gathered across the city and several people were arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter: Akisa Wandera<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed by: Hassan Lalli <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Edited by: Brian Khisa <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c0jyd70gp50o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families of those killed during Kenya\u2019s 2024 anti-government protests returned to parliament two years on, to remember their loved ones and demand justice. With central Nairobi under heavy security, parents and activists laid flowers on police barricades outside parliament, saying they are still waiting for accountability for those who died. Despite road closures and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55384,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382\/revisions\/55384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}