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The roadblocks that sealed Nairobi: 'We were told no one gets in'- police

Protestors along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway at Free Area during the nationwide Saba Saba demonstrations on July 7, 2025.
[Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Kenya’s capital ground to a halt on Monday as police enforced an extraordinary lockdown, turning Nairobi’s normally bustling streets into empty corridors of roadblocks and riot police squads.

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