In Kenya, at least 22 people have been killed and dozens more injured as nationwide protests intensify against a highly unpopular tax hike. Kenyan lawmakers approved the bill Tuesday as police fired live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of protesters who stormed Kenya’s Parliament in Nairobi, angered by the measure, which would skyrocket the cost of goods and services in Kenya to help pay off billions in foreign debt, including to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Demonstrations also continued in other parts of Kenya. These are protesters in the coastal city of Mombasa.

Daniel: “The taxes are so high. We are being taxed our salary, and any other thing that you are going to buy with the little that you’re remaining with is also taxed. So, I think let us just demonstrate. We don’t want it to be amended. We want it to be rejected in totality. And let us just kill the snake before it lays eggs.”

Emily: “We are fighting for ourselves because our future is in our own hands. If at all we let them direct us on how they’re going to direct in this country, it’s going to be woe unto us, and we’re not going to let that happen. And that is why today in Mombasa we have showed up in big numbers. We are not scared. We are going to show up today, tomorrow and even the next day.”

We’ll have more on Kenya later in the broadcast. We’ll go to Nairobi to speak with, among others, President Barack Obama’s half-sister Auma Obama, who was tear-gassed yesterday by Kenyan police.