2013 Kenyan general election Provinces The 2013 elections were largely peaceful, other than an incident in the early hours of 4 March just before polls opened, when a gang killed at least six police officers in the region of Changamwe, Mombasa. and in Kwale county. The authorities immediately blamed the Mombasa Republican Council (a fringe separatist group that had opposed the elections and believes that Kenya’s coastal zone should be a separate country) and arrested some of its members over the incident. Nevertheless, turnout in the affected counties was still high. The 2013 general election will be the first where there would be election
2009 shootings of Oakland police officers Oakland's black community and the Oakland Police Department. Although many Oakland citizens had stepped forward to help at the scene of the motorcycle police shootings, about 20 bystanders had taunted police as they gathered at the scene. Citing their cause as "resistance to police brutality", Uhuru House activists, who promote "African internationalism", handed out flyers in the neighborhood where Mixon was shot, inviting people to a rally where they might "uphold the resistance" of "Brother Lovelle Mixon". The "San Francisco Bay View", which identifies itself as a "National Black Newspaper," suggested that the killing of four police officers was a