Journalists in Kenya fear for their safety ahead of next month's elections

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Journalists and media activists in Kenya fear a repeat of the harassment they endured during the 2017 general elections as the country goes to the polls on 9 August.

The watershed election in Kenya has Vice President William Ruto pitched against political journeyman Rila Odinga as the two main presidential candidates.

This year’s polls have the makings of the 2017 plebiscite, which was disputed when now outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta beat Odinga, who then accused his rival of “democracy’s slaughter”.

In interviews carried out by CPJ, the organisation said that, from a pool of 50 Kenyan journalists, the mood was that the election could “turn violent or even deadly, [with] the normalisation of sexualised attacks against female reporters”.Political parties and their supporters have been accused of “profiling” journalists. The Media Council of Kenya highlighted that some politicians even issued direct threats to some journalists during their campaigns.

 

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