Anti-government protesters in Kenya’s capital clashed with an emerging pro-government group on Tuesday, escalating weeks of turmoil in East Africa’s economic hub that have led to dozens of deaths, the firing of most Cabinet members, and calls for President William Ruto’s resignation. The military made a rare deployment as the protests focused on the country’s main airport.

Protests began with Kenyans’ rejecting a proposed bill to impose more taxes as millions in the country barely get by amid rising prices.

The pro-government movement has emerged to counter the youth-led anti-government one. In Nairobi on Tuesday, the pro-government group took to the streets ahead of the latest anti-government demonstration.

Kenya’s main airport was meant to be the site of the latest protest, and anti-government demonstrators lit bonfires in a suburb along the highway that leads to it. Airport officials asked travellers to arrive early, and flights continued.

Police hurled tear-gas canisters at hundreds of protesters who blocked another road that leads to the airport, and the military was deployed to the Pipeline area east of the capital.

Protests also were reported in Kenya’s second largest city, the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa, as well as the city of Kisumu on Lake Victoria and Migori.

Kenya’s anti-government protests are in their fifth week. Under pressure, President William Ruto declined to sign the bill imposing new taxes and dismissed almost all Cabinet ministers, but protesters continue to call for his resignation.

At least 50 people have died and 413 others have been injured in the protests since June 18, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.

Acting police head Douglas Kanja asserted that Kenya’s main airport was a “protected area” and “out of bounds to unauthorized persons.”

But some protesters on Tuesday vowed to keep at it, with one of them declaring, “(Everything) that is happening in our day will continue happening.”