Mondays in Kenya have now been dubbed "Teargas Monday or Machozi Monday", this is in reference to tear gas canisters which Kenya's riot police use to disperse opposition leaders and their supporters.
Kenya's opposition party CORD has been spearheading protests against the nations IEBC commissioners whom accusations of corruption and favouritism for the ruling party has led the opposition to lose confidence in the IEBC's ability to oversee free and fair elections next year 2017.
With many Kenyan's who live in Australia growing increasingly worried about the safety of their loved ones in Kenya, SBS Swahili spoke with H.E Isaiaya Kabiira, Kenya's Ambassador to Australia, who filled us in on the government's position on the anti- IEBC protests.
H.E Kabiira also spoke about Kenya's decision to close UNHCR run Dadaab refugee camp at the border of Kenya and Somalia. Kenya's government maintains, people who carried out the massacre at Garissa University came from Dadaab. It hasn't been established if any of the attackers were registered refugess from the refugee camp.
