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Kenya's LGBTQ Refugees Face Threats, Attacks at Kakuma Camp

Kenya's LGBTQ Refugees Face Threats, Attacks at Kakuma Camp

LGBTQ refugees in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp say they are subjected to violent attacks and destruction of pr…

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A Death Penalty for the Poor | April Zhu

A Death Penalty for the Poor | April Zhu

On the night of June 1, demonstrators took to the streets in Bondeni-a subsection of Mathare, one of Nairobi'…

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Kenya Turns Its Covid-19 Crisis into a Human Rights Emergency

Kenya Turns Its Covid-19 Crisis into a Human Rights Emergency

Kenya's police force, which can trace a direct lineage back to its colonial-era forerunner, has played a star…

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APRIL ZHU - When We Lose Our Fear: A Saba Saba Day Reflection | The Elephant

APRIL ZHU - When We Lose Our Fear: A Saba Saba Day Reflection | The Elephant

On the 30th anniversary of the Saba Saba day, grassroots human rights defenders and allies held a protest and…

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This Kenyan cryptocurrency values inclusion over exclusivity

This Kenyan cryptocurrency values inclusion over exclusivity

With a pen and notepad in hand, Elizabeth Akinyi approaches the entrance of a corrugated-metal home in Mukuru…

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African countries struggle to find the coronavirus test kits they need

African countries struggle to find the coronavirus test kits they need

"Test, test, test" has been the mantra for defeating the novel coronavirus, but African countries are finding…

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Africa Is a Country

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By Ivan Mayabi, Frank Njugi, April Zhu Verified
| Africa Is a Country
The language of economic policy is designed to obscure. Fiscal consolidation sounds responsible, even prudent. “Structural adjustment” suggests repair, improvement, and optimization. “Widening the tax base” evokes democratic participation, a broadening of civic duty. These are the euphemisms that dress violence in the rhetoric of necessity. I learned this first not from reading economic theory but from watching my bank account.
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Africa Is a Country

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By Frank Njugi, Andrew Brown, April Zhu Verified
| Africa Is a Country
Last year, in one of those overly fun Nairobi evenings that tricks you into thinking the world is orderly, I was walking along Tom Mboya Street, with its streetlights flickering on, and the last of the matatus coughing exhaust into the dusk, and me, just out of a literary event, still carrying the residual buoyancy that follows extended conversation about books. I was heading toward the last matatu at my stage, phone in hand, scrolling through the after-notes, when the phone rang.
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Africa Is a Country

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By Faith Kasina, April Zhu Verified
| Africa Is a Country
Milkah, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), arrived in Nairobi in 2021, accompanied by her three children: a ten-year-old daughter and two sons aged eight and three. She was seeking to reunite with her husband, who had sought refuge in Kajiado; a county located to the southwest of Nairobi. After staying in Kajiado with her husband for a while, her family started receiving threats from their fellow Congolese in Nairobi.
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