{"id":67746,"date":"2024-06-20T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/protests-in-nairobi-over-kenya-governments-tax-hikes-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:43:43","slug":"protests-in-nairobi-over-kenya-governments-tax-hikes-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/protests-in-nairobi-over-kenya-governments-tax-hikes-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Nairobi over Kenya government&#8217;s tax hikes | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have taken to the streets in Nairobi, Kenya, to challenge the government over a series of unpopular tax proposals <!--more--> &#8211; including a 16% levy on bread.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, hundreds of protestors &#8211; most of them younger people &#8211; braved tear gas lobbed by police to march through the capital, Nairobi, bringing the city&#8217;s central business district to a standstill.<\/p>\n<p>The government had earlier defended the tax hikes, which had been projected to raise $2.7bn (\u00a32.1bn), saying they were needed to cut reliance on external borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>MPs are now debating the revised bill and are expected to vote on it next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Kenya #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have taken to the streets in Nairobi, Kenya, to challenge the government over a series of unpopular tax proposals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}