What are the chances of it seceding from Kenya?
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Short backstory:
Randu Nzai Ruwa is no stereotypical revolutionary. But the soft-spoken carpenter has a radical idea – he wants independence for Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, a paradise for visitors where locals live in poverty.
Ruwa is the leader of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), a secessionist group outlawed by the Kenyan government in 2010 but unbanned by the courts in July.
He says the government is neglecting the region, and complains that jobs, land and resources go to outsiders from the rest of Kenya, known as wabara. "We have been made slaves in our own land.”
Founded in 1999, the MRC aims to address political and economic discrimination against coastal peoples. The ethnic clashes in the Likoni area of Mombasa before the 1997 elections highlighted the marginalisation and land disputes along the coast. President Daniel arap Moi’s government declared an amnesty but sent in troops who ransacked villages, raped women and rounded up youth from the Mijikenda community. “We started meeting. We wanted to take up arms and go to the bush. We realised the government was not going to address our problems,” says Ruwa
@Django @Lumumba Nyerere @Removed @Helios @Thegoodshepherd @Yahya
Short backstory:
Randu Nzai Ruwa is no stereotypical revolutionary. But the soft-spoken carpenter has a radical idea – he wants independence for Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, a paradise for visitors where locals live in poverty.
Ruwa is the leader of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), a secessionist group outlawed by the Kenyan government in 2010 but unbanned by the courts in July.
He says the government is neglecting the region, and complains that jobs, land and resources go to outsiders from the rest of Kenya, known as wabara. "We have been made slaves in our own land.”
Founded in 1999, the MRC aims to address political and economic discrimination against coastal peoples. The ethnic clashes in the Likoni area of Mombasa before the 1997 elections highlighted the marginalisation and land disputes along the coast. President Daniel arap Moi’s government declared an amnesty but sent in troops who ransacked villages, raped women and rounded up youth from the Mijikenda community. “We started meeting. We wanted to take up arms and go to the bush. We realised the government was not going to address our problems,” says Ruwa