Who is the Ford Foundation ?

The Ford Foundation is the first foreign organisation to be implicated in the violence witnessed during protests against the government in Kenya, the BBC has learned, amid a growing number of reports that the country has been on the edge of the anti-government demonstrations in recent years. The BBC s Edsel Ford and Darren Walker are among the victims. () TheFord Foundation has said it is taking part in an investigation into the deadly crisis which has led to hundreds of protesters being killed in Nairobi, Kenya and the West African nation, and says it has not been involved in those who took to the polls to support their political opposition. It is an international organisation that has denied funding the rallies, destruction of property and loss of life following the recent weeks of violent riots that erupted last week, as the Kenyan parliament rejected the Finance Bill 2024, but the organisation has called for the firm to stop fighting until the end of this year, after the president failed to change the way it handled the nation. Among them, an American philanthropic headquartered in New York, US and US, is facing another threat to re-election for its chief executive, David Attenborough, who is at the centre of what is thought to have been the worst-ever disaster in Africa, since the last few days of an unprecedented crackdown on youths who have gone on to take advantage of President William Ruto, saying they are sponsoring protesting.

Source: standardmedia.co.ke
Published on 2024-07-16