{"id":3272,"date":"2025-11-06T02:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimbabweunited.com\/media-center\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2025-11-06T02:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:43:23","slug":"tanzania-election-protests-hit-kenya-around-700-dead-despite-curfew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/tanzania-election-protests-hit-kenya-around-700-dead-despite-curfew\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Election Protests Hit Kenya, &#8220;Around 700 Dead&#8221; Despite Curfew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXiloJoBWZ4?si=UuMd19Id1k0X6FLt\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tensions erupted on the Kenya-Tanzania border as post-election protests in Tanzania spilt into Kenya\u2019s Namanga town. After a contentious vote in which key opposition voices were barred, demonstrators in Tanzania clashed with security forces, prompting alleged cross-border tear-gas deployments into Kenya. The unrest has disrupted trade, spurred internet outages and curfews, and drawn strong criticism from rights groups over alleged human-rights abuses. Opposition claims that the protests have killed around 700 people, while official records state only two have died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions erupted on the Kenya-Tanzania border as post-election protests in Tanzania spilt into Kenya\u2019s Namanga town. After a contentious vote in which key opposition voices were barred, demonstrators in Tanzania clashed with security forces, prompting alleged cross-border tear-gas deployments into Kenya. The unrest has disrupted trade, spurred internet outages and curfews, and drawn strong criticism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,305],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-africa-united-news","category-firstpost","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}