NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s President William Ruto, who has replaced members of his cabinet amid mass youth protests demanding his resignation, is due to make an address to the nation at 1 p.m. local time (1000 GMT), his spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Last Friday, Ruto mostly named holdovers from the cabinet he sacked a week earlier to a new government meant to respond to the grievances of young protesters.
The mass firing was a concession to demands from youth-led protests that had already forced him to withdraw $2.7 billion in proposed tax hikes amid the biggest crisis of his two-year presidency.
(Reporting by George Obulutsa; Editing by Peter Graff)
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