Police are fighting running battles with chanting rioters pushing to access Nairobi's Uhuru Park for a rally called by the Orange Democratic Movement.
A church has been torched in Kibera while a petrol station and five cars have been set ablaze along the city's Juja road. Key highways into the central business district remain more or less closed as police battle protestors.
Uhuru Park, the venue of the rally called by ODM's Raila Odinga, was cordoned off by hundreds of paramilitary policemen at the crack of dawn.
Virtually no business is taking place in the city as offices and premises that had opened earlier have now closed.
Scores of youths who attempted to get into the city from Kibera slums through Ngong road and Mbagathi Way were repulsed. A similar group was blocked along Thika road and Waiyaki Way. A stand-off between police and protestors has been reported along Jogoo road while on Mombasa road motorists are being blocked by police from driving into the city.
ODM leaders have finished a meeting with South Africa's Bishop Desmond Tutu and are reported to be heading for the venue of the rally.
Bishop Tutu is in Kenya in help arbitrate between President Kibaki and Mr Odinga's teams.
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