How Gen Z movement has shaped Kenyan politics

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A police officer aims a gun loaded with a tear gas canister towards demonstrators along Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya on June 20, 2024.

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When Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday convened the third annual retreat in Kajiado for senior officials to review his administration’s performance, the contrast with last year’s event couldn’t have been starker.

More than half of the 22 Cabinet Secretaries who attended the second retreat in the Rift Valley resort town of Naivasha were not in the room -- their seats occupied by new faces.