{"id":200955,"date":"2025-06-26T02:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-hope-and-fear-ahead-of-gen-z-protest-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T02:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:29:55","slug":"kenya-hope-and-fear-ahead-of-gen-z-protest-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-hope-and-fear-ahead-of-gen-z-protest-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Hope and Fear Ahead of Gen Z Protest Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi Kenya \u2014 Kenya was set to commemorate on Wednesday the first anniversary of the Gen Z-led protests that shook the nation in 2024, marked by the unprecedented storming of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In honor of those who lost their lives, a section of Kenyans have vowed to return to the streets in peaceful demonstrations across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">While hope remains for calm, anxiety lingers over the possibility of renewed violence, looting, and confrontations witnessed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Security has been heightened&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506250420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi Kenya \u2014 Kenya was set to commemorate on Wednesday the first anniversary of the Gen Z-led protests that shook the nation in 2024, marked by the unprecedented storming of Parliament. In honor of those who lost their lives, a section of Kenyans have vowed to return to the streets in peaceful demonstrations across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":200956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670689:b98b91ed53e06e47d3c7204bb7cf0982:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7019,8220,12166,11240,8868,4688,430,257,2194,254],"class_list":["post-200955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-anniversary","tag-fear","tag-gen","tag-hope","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670689:b98b91ed53e06e47d3c7204bb7cf0982:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}