Kenyas

Why Albert Ojwang’s demise has put Kenya’s police on trial

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Why Albert Ojwang’s demise has put Kenya’s police on trial

Wycliffe Muia, Barbara Plett Usher & Brian Waihenya BBC News, Nairobi Albert Ojwang / Facebook Albert Ojwang, who was married with a young son, had graduated with a Bachelor of Education degree a few years ago “My son died like an animal,” said Meshack Ojwang, before breaking down in tears in front of journalists outside … Read more

Malnutrition in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp after US assist cuts

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Malnutrition in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp after US assist cuts

Hundreds of thousands of people are “slowly starving” in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels, a United Nations official has told the BBC. The impact is starkly visible at a hospital in the sprawling Kakuma camp in the north-west of the East African nation. It is … Read more