(8 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya - 8 July 2025
1. Pan of damaged buildings
2. Close of shattered windows at supermarket
3. Close of damaged metal drop-down gate
4. Close of shattered windows at bank
5. Wide of business owners outside their damaged and looted businesses
6. Pan of damaged and looted businesses
7. Various of damaged lock on shutter
8. Various of Nancy Gicharu, mobile phone and accessories shop owner, whose shop was looted
9. SOUNDBITE (English/Swahili) Nancy Gicharu, shop owner:
"Some goons, because they are not Gen Z protesters, they are goons. They invaded our shop and, by the way, we have lost so many things. We lost cash, phones, a lot of them, amounting to very huge amounts. We have lost our laptops, our printers, our machines, even the shop is damaged beyond repair."
10. Various of damaged shelves and lockers inside Gicharu's shop
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nancy Gicharu, shop owner:
"A piece of phone was 15,000 (Kenya shillings, $117). If you happen to have like 100 or 150 (pieces), if you add it or multiply, you get it, maybe it is even amounting to 2 million (Kenya shillings, $15,500). And adding the machines, the printers, the laptops and the shop damage, that is a huge amount. So, you see, it is a big blow to us."
12. Various of damaged supermarket
13. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) David Kimaru, supermarket supervisor:
"We found that the entrance was broken into, then they hit the window glass trying to go through the windows but did not manage it. So, they came back to the entrance and got in, looting all the electronics, all the microwaves, TVs, dispensers and (causing) massive damages down the aisles."
14. Pan of damaged supermarket building
15. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) David Kimaru, supermarket supervisor:
"They have really set us back. This business is almost a year old now, it is a new business. But, those people are not from here, because they were being chased by everyone from all sides and they clashed here."
16. Mid of business owners and police outside damaged shops
17. SOUNDBITE (English/Swahili) Nancy Gicharu, mobile phone dealer:
"Today you have something, but when you wake up tomorrow you find that you have nothing. It sets you back majorly, you can even become sick and fall into depression because you have no more stock."
18. Various of damaged bank building
19. Various of shop attendant cleaning broken glass inside mini-mart
STORYLINE:
In the wake of countrywide protests which turned violent in Kenya on Monday, traders were counting their losses following extensive damage to their businesses and buildings.
Police in Kenya clashed with demonstrators Monday during the latest anti-government protests, killing 10 people, according to the state-funded human rights commission.
Authorities blocked major roads leading into the capital, Nairobi, and most businesses closed amid the strictest measures yet to contain the unrest.
"Some goons, because they are not Gen Z protesters,... [truncated]
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