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Kenya Locks Into a Cycle of Increasingly Deadly Protests

A protest in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 25. 

Photographer: Michel Lunanga/Getty Images

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Running battles between mostly youths and police on Kenyan streets are invariably turning deadly.