Kenya
Kenyan Activist Calls for TikTok Ban
Bob Ndolo, a petitioner with Kenya’s “Ban TikTok” movement has called on President William Ruto’s administration to ban the popular Chinese mobile application. Ndolo says he wants Kenya to ban the app because “you find young girls that you call your sister, your auntie or mother, all there half naked.” For more, reporter Francis Ontomwa produced this report from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
Kenyan Religious Leaders Protest LGBTQ Rights
Kenyan religious leaders Wednesday took to the streets of Mombasa, a port city, to protest a ruling passed Tuesday by the nation’s supreme court that reaffirmed the LGBTQ community’s right to association. Protestors are calling on President William Ruto to follow in the footsteps of his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, who has condemned LGBTQ relations, despite criticism from Western leaders who regard the matter as a human rights violation.