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Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya–For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia. The one that finally drove him from Somalia tore though his family’s...
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Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant called jatropha curcas. That surprised people in Kibwezi...
Kenya — Masked gunmen forced a group of eight Muslim preachers, most of them from Pakistan, out of a mosque in the Somali town of Gaalkacyo at dawn prayers on Wednesday and shot them, residents and witnesses said.
Millions of people move to Africa’s cities every year, swelling the numbers of urban poor. “We cannot chase people away from slums,” says Kelvin Mmangisa, chief executive of the Lilongwe City Assembly. “But we can improve the...
“As the sun sets on the 29th day of Ramadhan, multitudes of expectant eyes focus on the horizon, eager to sight the new crescent that will usher in Eid-ul-Fitre.”
Several residents of Nairobi’s Kibera slum are maimed. They walk lamely because there are bullets lodged in their bodies.
They survived to tell the brutal force used against them as police fought with rioters in the expansive slum during chaos...
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