Our reporters note a bit more activity around the National Archives in the CBD.

ELDORET town on 27 June 2024 11AM: Heavy police presence visible at strategic parts of the town as the morning buzz picks pace gradually. No sight of protesters yet.

LIVE at Nyayo Stadium: KDF assembles its troops believed to be gearing up to quell planned protests around Nairobi.

Protesters begin engaging in running battles with police officers around the Globe roundabout as they attempt to access CBD.

JUST IN: A protester is arrested and escorted away by anti-riot police officers.

Antiriot police officers gather around a largely calm Mama Ngina Street.

LIVE THREAD: Two days after William Samoei Ruto, PhD asked for dialogue, protesters say they’re not backing down. This morning, all roads leading to State House have been cordoned off as the president creates a buffer around himself.

There’s near zero traffic along roads hosting major government installations. Apart from the heavy security on Parliament Road, City Hall Way is under tight patrol.

The horses are back 😊. Spotted along Kenyatta Avenue at 8.15AM

With the Kenyan flag wrapped around him, a protester in Nakuru yells “Sisi si wezi” (We’re not thieves) - as anti-govt protests begin in Nakuru town.

Police around Arya Center in Nairobi sniffing out anyone who looks, walks, or talks like an anti-govt protester.

Our reporters in Nairobi and Nakuru all observe a different, more violent demographic seemingly infiltrating today’s protest.

JUST IN: Vehicles burnt outside Caffe Point in Mombasa.

2:00PM in Nakuru Protesters + Police = Tear Gas + Running Battles

The coffin card: Amidst what seems to be an infiltration by violent groups in today’s protest, protesters in Nairobi sneak a poignant message on the streets (possibly an ode to those killed by police in previous protests).

A crowd follows as medics rush a man, with a penetrating gunshot wound on the thigh, to an awaiting ambulance along Nairobi’s Moi Avenue.

Viewer discretion: Scenes of blood A man who has been hit on the head by a tear gas canister complains of having lost all his belongings as he’s attended to by medics.

Nairobi at 3.30 PM Another gunshot victim is hurriedly secured into an ambulance to be rushed to the hospital. Our reporter says a lady accompanying the injured recounts police firing live bullets towards them at close range around Khoja Roundabout.

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