For a week now, thousands of people in Kenya have been taking part in unprecedented demonstrations against a proposed finance bill. Yesterday, Kenya’s president accused some demonstrators of treason after they stormed parliament. But today, he changed his tune and conceded to the demands of demonstrators as criticism mounted over the deadly police response. The World’s Africa Correspondent Halima Gikandi reports from the capital Nairobi.
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