'I know what happens to thieves here': Public lynchings on the rise in Kenya
- Posted on April 3, 2026
- By Le Monde
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'I know what happens to thieves here': Public lynchings on the rise in Kenya
Kenya's Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen revealed on February 25 that 579 people were killed in 2025 due to urban violence. A few months earlier, he acknowledged the police's responsibility in these incidents of 'mob justice.'