Nairobi, May 7 -- The Kenya Editors Guild has condemned the decision to exclude Standard Media Group and Mediamax journalists from covering a presidential event in Naivasha on Thursday.

In a statement, the Guild's president, Zubeidah Kananu, said that barring journalists from accessing and covering the event, coupled with the use of derogatory and inflammatory remarks, amounted to hostility against the media.

The Guild expressed regret that this incident occurred just days after World Press Freedom Day, highlighting the contradiction between public celebrations of freedom and the increasing intolerance towards independent journalists.

The incident occurred during the opening of a two-day stakeholders' education conference hosted by the...