In response to flooding that destroyed homes and displaced thousands in Nairobi’s informal settlements, the government has been evicting people living in riparian areas.
Walking in Accra, Ghana is dangerous.
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Adolescent girls are more at risk during childbirth. Stigma and abuse by healthcare workers makes them less likely to seek medical care, putting their lives further in danger.
Mau Mau suspects are rounded up by police outside a camp in Manyani, Kenya in 1955.
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Kenya’s experienced fast population growth and urbanisation - this has brought about some big challenges.
Signwriters rush to replace colonial street names with news ones in April 1964, a few months after Kenya’s independence on December 12, 1963.
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As Nairobi grows ever taller, and as newer suburbs take over from the central business district as the city’s commercial centres, the Hilton stands as a landmark to a different era.
Untitled by Ugandan artist Peter Mulindwa.
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A host of problems are behind police failures, including poor evidence gathering and the mistreatment of witnesses.
At least 57 of the government’s affordable housing units completed so far have been allocated to the KDF soldiers.
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