Kenyan MPs have voted to overrule a pay cut, hoping it will force government to pay them as much as legislators in the previous Parliament earned.
Protesters have released pigs at Parliament’s gates and poured blood on the pavement to protest demands by newly elected lawmakers for a wage hike.
Kenya’s new Parliament sought on Tuesday to speed up legislation ratifying a fragile power-sharing deal intended to guarantee the peace after a post-election crisis that killed more than 1 000 people. Members of Parliament proposed procedures so that two Bills could be approved within a five-day limit.