The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of then-president Daniel arap Moi,

Police in Kenya have clashed with demonstrators during anti-government protests that saw authorities block major roads leading into the capital, Nairobi, and most businesses closed.

Officers fired and hurled tear gas canisters, injuring demonstrators. One young man being carried away, with his shirt drenched in blood, said he had been shot.