By Lucía Blanco Gracia Gazi, Kenya, Jan 13 (EFE).- Mize Hamisi Ali has lived in legal limbo for decades. Kenya is the only homeland she knows, but the country does not recognize her community, the Pemba people, as citizens. “We don’t know when we came here, we’ve been living here for as long as we …
By Lucía Blanco Gracia Nairobi, 24 nov (EFE).- A startup company has partnered with suburban communities in Nairobi to revive the Kenyan capital’s pollution-clogged rivers. “In this river, our fathers used to swim and women were washing clothes,” Christopher Owako, who works with Chemolex to clean the Mathare river, tells Efe. “Now these waters are …
By Lucía Blanco Gracia Narok, Kenya, Jun 28 (EFE).- Thousands of Maasai people have been flocking to the border between Tanzania and Kenya in recent weeks, as the Tanzanian government continues its attempts to evict members of the Nilotic ethnic group from their ancestral lands in the northern town of Loliondo. “The government has moved …
By Lucía Blanco Gracia Nairobi, Mar 14 (EFE).- Home to thousands of aging journals and colonial-era books, the majestic but dilapidated McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi’s oldest, lay dormant for years until two women launched a project to give it a new lease of life. Publisher Angela Wachuka and writer Wanjiru Koinange took on the challenge …
By Víctor Escribano and Lucía Blanco Gracia Nairobi/Shanghai, Jan 6 (EFE) – China’s economic strategy in Africa was given a boost this week with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Kenya, who met Thursday with president Uhuru Kenyatta on the second stop of his tour of Africa, which includes Eritrea and Comoros. “Our commitment …