Overview

• At least 31 protesters were killed, over 107 injured, and more than 500 arrested during Saba Saba Day demonstrations, marking the highest single-day death toll since unrest began, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights reports.
• President William Ruto instructed police to shoot looters in the leg to incapacitate them without causing fatalities, a directive critics say breaches constitutional limits on force.
• Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen publicly urged officers to “shoot and kill” demonstrators, describing the order as mandated “from above.”
• National Assembly Defence Committee chairperson Nelson Koech contradicted the president by calling for protesters to be shot dead, exposing rifts within the ruling coalition.
• The United Nations Human Rights Office and domestic rights bodies have demanded transparent, independent probes into the deadly crackdown and alleged police brutality.