Increasingly, Ruto's Kenya is looking like Idi Amin's Uganda

Police use water cannons to disperse protestors in Nairobi, on June 25, 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

The order to stop the live coverage and the subsequent switching off TV stations by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) during the nationwide demos this last Wednesday saw the final relegation of Kenya to a place among the least democratic nations of the world. Thanks to recent actions by the William Ruto-led Kenya Kwanza regime, our country, which has one of the world's most progressive constitutions 15 years ago, and which offers refuge to those fleeing persecution by authoritarian governments, is no longer the bastion of democracy in the region.