Author: Wangui Kimari
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Pain At Home And Away: The Plight of Kenyan Domestic Workers
In November 2022, Akinyi, a domestic worker from Kariobangi, was thrown off the fourth floor of an apartment building in Kiamaiko by her employer after she accused her of having stolen KSh 20,000. She was in her second trimester of a pregnancy. This is not the first or last of such incidents, and the collaboration and…
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Ahmed Rashid, Mathare’s Merchant Of Death?
Over the last six years, data collected by the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) puts Ahmed Rashid, a policeman attached to Pangani Police Station, on the defense regarding the deaths of, at least, 43 young people in Mathare. Among these victims are a 12-year-old boy and two teenagers, the latter whose broad daylight gangland-style execution…