Protesting residents push a flaming tyre towards a burning barricade on a road in Kibera Slum in Nairobi on August 9, 2017, as they take part in protests in the Raila Odinga-led opposition alliance National Super Alliance (NASA) stronhhold in the Kenyan capital following the announcement of national election results. Police engaged in running battles with a few hundred protesters in Odinga’s bastion Kisumu in western Kenya, firing tear gas as his supporters set tyres alight as burning barricades also went up in Nairobi’s Mathare slum as ballots from 94 percent of polling stations counted showed Kenyatta leading with 54.4 percent of the over 14 million ballots tallied against Odinga’s 44.7 percent. / AFP PHOTO
Two policemen have been killed in a string of attacks on police stations in a small town in northern Mozambique but 14 of the gunmen were slain, police said on Saturday.
“We recorded 14 deaths and several wounded among the bandits,” police spokesman Inacio Dina told AFP of the attacks in Mocimboa de Praia.
Two policemen were also killed during what appeared to be coordinated attacks that occurred on Thursday and Friday.
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