Muslims protest attacks on Afghanistan

Thousands of Muslim demonstrators took to the streets of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after prayers on Friday to protest against US-led air strikes against Afghanistan, AFP news agency reported. The demonstrators marched to the office of President Daniel arap Moi and handed in a memorandum urging the Kenyan government to condemn American and British "acts of terrorism and aggression against the innocent people of Afghanistan," it said.

There were also protests in the eastern port city of Mombasa, where police reportedly used batons against a crowd of several thousand Muslim demonstrators, the report stated. "We shall rise up to the occasion as every true believer to stop the American annihilation of our Muslim brothers in Afghanistan", AFP quoted a Muslim cleric as saying. Riot police were sent into the Muslim-dominated sectors of the city in a show of force to prevent further protests, the news agency said.