On Monday, the streets of central Nairobi were quiet after police mounted roadblocks on the main roads, restricting entry to areas that were the epicentre of previous rallies.

The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of then-president Daniel arap Moi,

Police were blocking major roads leading into Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, ahead of planned anti-government protests. Most businesses remain closed and police officers were stopping vehicles