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Deserted streets, closed businesses in Kisumu ahead of Azimio protests

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Some of the closed business premises in Kisumu CBD. [Washington Onyango, Standard]

Several business premises remain closed in Kisumu, Homa Bay and Migori counties as youths started barricading roads ahead of the planned mass protests.

In Migori, protestors have blocked the Migori-Isebania highway, a key road that connects the region to Tanzania. By 8.30 a.m, protests had begun in Migori with the protestors lighting bonfires.

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