Yusra Elbagir
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And I think to some degree it could work.
I mean, when the votes, when the election results were announced, we drove back to
And we saw people gathered around TVs.
We're like, wait, are they watching the election results?
Are they waiting for a speech?
And they're actually watching the Manchester United Man City game.
Like completely checked out, gathering to watch the results.
No protests, everyone back at work.
I mean, I've been checking in since we've been back for the last kind of two days and I still haven't heard a protest pick up again.
I think there's generally just a sense of,
all right, it didn't work.
It doesn't mean they won't protest again.
And Bobby continuing to call for protests might change something.
But that one day, Ben, where votes were being counted and the security forces and the military descended was so aggressive and so brutal that I do think that they...
took the kind of air out of it for a little bit.
They definitely made it very clear that people would lose their lives if they went out to protest.
I honestly felt like we were on the front line.
And I've been to a lot of protests in the last few years around these sort of issues of Gen Z upset and, you know, Ruto must go.
I haven't seen anything like this.
In Kenya, it's very dynamic.