KENYA  –   Kenyan authorities are investigating if pupils who set fire to their school dormitories did so after being told they could not watch a Euro 2016 match on television.

The trouble happened last weekend at a school in the west of the country, local media reports. It began with a few students throwing stones and shouting “our rights”, school principal Andrew Otara said. It is the latest in a spate of arson incidents at Kenyan schools. The pupils at Itierio Boys Secondary School in Kisii were not allowed to stay up to watch the Euro 2016 match between Croatia and Portugal, KTN television news reports. There were also complaints that the school had introduced new stricter discipline rules but the school has denied this.(BBC.COM/photo: www.thecitizen.co.tz)…[+]