#kenya — Public Fediverse posts
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Mysterious elephant deaths in Kenya raise questions around pesticides https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27p32jzj2o?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
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Mysterious elephant deaths in Kenya raise questions around pesticides https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27p32jzj2o?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
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A group of elephants, Amboseli National Park, Kenya
© Ibrahim Suha Derbent/Getty Images
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Is Kenya Safe for Tourists in 2026? Travel Safety Guide
If you've typed "is Kenya safe" into Google at 1 a.m. while your safari deposit sits half-paid in another tab, you're not alone. It's one of the most common questions people ask when planning their first trip to Kenya — right alongside "What do I pack?" and "Will I actually see a lion?" The honest answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no. Kenya is a large and diverse country, and safety can vary depending on where you go, how you travel, and how well prepared you are. So let's get into it — what's worth knowing about Kenya travel safety in 2026, which areas require more caution, and what you can do to have a safer and more confident trip. -
Is Kenya Safe for Tourists in 2026? Travel Safety Guide
If you've typed "is Kenya safe" into Google at 1 a.m. while your safari deposit sits half-paid in another tab, you're not alone. It's one of the most common questions people ask when planning their first trip to Kenya — right alongside "What do I pack?" and "Will I actually see a lion?" The honest answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no. Kenya is a large and diverse country, and safety can vary depending on where you go, how you travel, and how well prepared you are. So let's get into it — what's worth knowing about Kenya travel safety in 2026, which areas require more caution, and what you can do to have a safer and more confident trip. -
This week on The Roots: Our contributor Michiel Robberecht shares unseen photos and perspectives from his reporting trip to Lake Victoria.
Join us every Sunday as we discuss one of the week's top news stories: https://newsletter.thexylom.com/archive/reporting-from-africa-s-biggest-lake/
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This week on The Roots: Our contributor Michiel Robberecht shares unseen photos and perspectives from his reporting trip to Lake Victoria.
Join us every Sunday as we discuss one of the week's top news stories: https://newsletter.thexylom.com/archive/reporting-from-africa-s-biggest-lake/
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Settlements in the great rift valley's escarpment in Kiambu county near Nakuru county, #Kenya.
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Settlements in the great rift valley's escarpment in Kiambu county near Nakuru county, #Kenya.
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10 Best National Parks in Kenya You Should Visit in 2026
Kenya doesn't ease you into it. One minute you're bumping along a dirt road with dust coating the inside of your sunglasses, and the next you're staring at a lioness stretched out on a termite mound like she owns the place — because, honestly, she does. The country has more than twenty national parks and reserves, and they are far from interchangeable. Some are vast grasslands where wildebeest thunder across the plains. Others are red-dust landscapes where elephants look as though they've been dipped in rust. Then there are cool, misty forests where you're more likely to hear a bird you can't name than spot a mammal. This guide narrows the list down to ten of the best national parks and wildlife areas to consider in 2026, what makes each one worth visiting, and — because everyone asks — which one is the best fit for your kind of trip. -
10 Best National Parks in Kenya You Should Visit in 2026
Kenya doesn't ease you into it. One minute you're bumping along a dirt road with dust coating the inside of your sunglasses, and the next you're staring at a lioness stretched out on a termite mound like she owns the place — because, honestly, she does. The country has more than twenty national parks and reserves, and they are far from interchangeable. Some are vast grasslands where wildebeest thunder across the plains. Others are red-dust landscapes where elephants look as though they've been dipped in rust. Then there are cool, misty forests where you're more likely to hear a bird you can't name than spot a mammal. This guide narrows the list down to ten of the best national parks and wildlife areas to consider in 2026, what makes each one worth visiting, and — because everyone asks — which one is the best fit for your kind of trip. -
The Great Migration in Kenya: When and Where to See It in 2026
There's a moment every guide in the Maasai Mara waits for. You're standing through the roof of a Land Cruiser, the engine is off, and somewhere ahead, a low rumble starts building — not thunder, but hooves. Thousands of them. Within minutes, the plain in front of you is moving, and it doesn't stop for what feels like hours. If you've never seen it in person, no documentary really prepares you for the scale of it. That's the Great Migration, and if you're planning a trip around it, timing and location can make a big difference to your experience. Here's what you need to know before you book. -
The Great Migration in Kenya: When and Where to See It in 2026
There's a moment every guide in the Maasai Mara waits for. You're standing through the roof of a Land Cruiser, the engine is off, and somewhere ahead, a low rumble starts building — not thunder, but hooves. Thousands of them. Within minutes, the plain in front of you is moving, and it doesn't stop for what feels like hours. If you've never seen it in person, no documentary really prepares you for the scale of it. That's the Great Migration, and if you're planning a trip around it, timing and location can make a big difference to your experience. Here's what you need to know before you book. -
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R.I.P Ayub Ogada
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-ayub-ogada/
Job Seda (1956 – 1 February 2019), better known as Ayub Ogada, was a Kenyan singer, favoring the nyatiti (an eight-stringed lyre with its origins credited to the Luo, a tribe in Western Kenya) as his characteristic instrument. […]
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R.I.P Ayub Ogada
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-ayub-ogada/
Job Seda (1956 – 1 February 2019), better known as Ayub Ogada, was a Kenyan singer, favoring the nyatiti (an eight-stringed lyre with its origins credited to the Luo, a tribe in Western Kenya) as his characteristic instrument. […]
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Pan African Women’s Day Organise Women, Defeat Imperialism, Complete the National Democratic Revolution
Today, on Pan African Women’s Day, the Revolutionary Women’s League extends its revolutionary greetings to the women of Kenya, Africa and the world. We salute workers, peasants, fisherfolk, pastoralists, students, teachers, healthcare workers, informal traders, professionals, revolutionary organisers and all those whose labour sustains society while remaining exploited under imperialism and capitalism. We equally stand in solidarity with all those subjected to patriarchal and gender based oppression, recognising that the struggle against every form of oppression is inseparable from the struggle against exploitation.
Pan African Women’s Day is not merely a day of celebration. It is a day of struggle, remembrance and renewed commitment. It honours the generations of African women who resisted slavery, colonial conquest and imperialist domination, who organised workers and peasants, who carried supplies to liberation fighters, who endured imprisonment and torture, and who refused to surrender the dignity of our people.
Kenya’s own history bears witness to this revolutionary tradition. We remember Mekatilili wa Menza, who organised resistance against British colonial rule on the Coast. We honour Field Marshal Muthoni Kirima, whose courage in the forests of Mount Kenya helped sustain the Mau Mau liberation struggle. We salute Wangari Maathai, whose defence of our environment challenged dictatorship, land grabbing and imperialist models of development. Across our continent we honour Charlotte Maxeke, Lilian Ngoyi, Albertina Sisulu, Winnie Madikizela Mandela, Ruth First, Josina Machel, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, Dulcie September and the countless unnamed women whose sacrifices advanced not only the liberation of Africa but also the cause of world revolution.
Their legacy reminds us that women have never stood on the margins of history. They have stood at its forefront.
More than six decades after formal independence, the overwhelming majority of Kenyan women remain trapped within a neo colonial social order that denies them genuine freedom. While a small comprador elite accumulates immense wealth, millions of women struggle daily against poverty, unemployment, landlessness, food insecurity, rising prices, collapsing public services and insecure livelihoods. Women produce enormous wealth through their labour in farms, factories, flower farms, tea estates, fishing communities, markets, schools, hospitals, households and the informal economy, yet they continue to receive only a fraction of the value they create.
These conditions are neither accidental nor inevitable. They are the direct consequence of a neo colonial economic order maintained through imperialist domination and administered by comprador governments that subordinate the interests of the Kenyan people to foreign finance capital. The privatisation of healthcare and education, the commercialisation of essential services, the grabbing of community land, the plunder of our natural resources, the casualisation of labour and the deepening burden of foreign debt continue to intensify the exploitation of working women throughout our country.
Working women bear the greatest burden of this crisis. They labour in factories for poverty wages. They cultivate land they do not own. They sustain families through unpaid domestic labour while confronting unemployment, insecurity, political repression and gender based violence. Women in informal settlements, rural communities and urban working class neighbourhoods carry the daily responsibility of ensuring the survival of families under conditions created by a system that values profit above human life.
The Revolutionary Women’s League affirms that women’s oppression cannot be understood apart from the material conditions that reproduce it. Patriarchal relations are continually reinforced because they serve systems of exploitation by maintaining unpaid labour, depressing wages and preserving class domination. The struggle against patriarchy is therefore inseparable from the struggle against imperialism, neo colonialism, capitalism and every form of class exploitation. Genuine emancipation cannot be achieved merely through legal reforms or symbolic representation. It requires the revolutionary transformation of society itself.
We equally affirm that the decisive force for women’s emancipation lies not among privileged elites who have secured positions within the existing order, but among the millions of working women whose labour sustains society. The future belongs to the women who till the land, produce food, teach our children, heal the sick, build our industries, trade in our markets and organise within their communities. Their collective organisation constitutes an indispensable force for national liberation and socialist transformation.
We reject every attempt to reduce women’s emancipation to corporate appointments, token political representation or donor funded empowerment programmes that leave untouched the structures responsible for exploitation. The advancement of a privileged minority cannot substitute for the liberation of the working majority. Women cannot be liberated by merely integrating a few into institutions that continue to exploit the many. Genuine emancipation shall be won only through organised mass struggle led by the working class and its allies.
For the Revolutionary Women’s League, the struggle for women’s emancipation forms an inseparable component of the National Democratic Revolution. The defeat of imperialism, the dismantling of the neo colonial state, genuine land reform, national industrialisation, democratic control over our natural resources and the establishment of people’s power create the material foundations upon which the complete liberation of women can be realised. The emancipation of women is inseparable from the emancipation of the working class. Neither can triumph without the other.
The Revolutionary Women’s League is the women’s mass organisation of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya, established to organise, educate and mobilise women under the leadership of the Party. Guided by Marxism Leninism, the mass line and democratic centralism, we transform the everyday struggles of women into organised revolutionary struggle. From the masses, to the masses, we learn from the experiences of working women, synthesise those experiences through scientific socialism and return them to the people as revolutionary consciousness, organisation and action. Our task is to build the organised power of women as an indispensable force of the National Democratic Revolution and the future socialist transformation of Kenya.
On this day we extend our revolutionary solidarity to the women of Palestine resisting genocide and occupation, to the women of Cuba defending socialism under blockade, to the women of Venezuela resisting imperialist aggression, to the women of Western Sahara struggling for self determination, to the women of Sudan striving for peace and sovereignty, and to working women everywhere confronting exploitation, racism, colonialism, fascism and war. The struggle of working women knows no borders, for imperialism itself knows no borders. We affirm that the liberation of women in Kenya is inseparable from the liberation of women across Africa and the world, for imperialism is a global system and our struggle must equally be international.
We therefore call upon women across Kenya to organise in villages, estates, campuses, workplaces and communities. Build revolutionary organisations. Deepen political education. Unite with workers, poor peasants, progressive youth and all patriotic forces committed to national liberation. Reject tribalism, corruption, chauvinism and every ideology that divides the oppressed. Transform the daily struggles of survival into organised political struggle, and organised political struggle into revolutionary power capable of defeating imperialism and building socialism.
The Revolutionary Women’s League remains steadfast in building a disciplined movement of politically conscious women capable of advancing the National Democratic Revolution and contributing to the broader struggle for a united, sovereign and socialist Africa. We reaffirm that the liberation of Kenya shall remain incomplete until women are fully liberated from exploitation, oppression and every form of domination. We equally affirm that socialism cannot be built without the full participation, leadership and revolutionary initiative of women.
The freedom of women shall never be granted by the oppressors. It shall be won through organisation. It shall be defended through struggle. It shall be secured through revolution. The organised women of Kenya shall stand in the front ranks of the National Democratic Revolution until exploitation, oppression and imperialist domination are consigned to history.
“Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!”
Forward with the emancipation of women!
Forward with the unity of the working class and all oppressed peoples!
Forward with the National Democratic Revolution!
Forward with Pan African unity!
Forward to socialism!
Steering Committee
Revolutionary Women’s League
Women’s Mass Organisation of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya
source: CPMK
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=35818 #africa #communistPartyOfKenya #feminism #kenya #socialism -
Die steigenden Gewässer im kenianischen Rift Valley verändern das Leben rund um den Baringo-See, treiben die Tierwelt näher an die Häuser heran und zwingen Tausende von Bewohnern, ihr Land aufzugeben.
Seit Jahren weitet der See sich aus und verschluckt Bauernhöfe, Schulen und touristische Einrichtungen. Beamte des #Kenya Wildlife Service sagen, dass die Änderungen schon seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt unmöglich zu ignorieren waren.
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Die steigenden Gewässer im kenianischen Rift Valley verändern das Leben rund um den Baringo-See, treiben die Tierwelt näher an die Häuser heran und zwingen Tausende von Bewohnern, ihr Land aufzugeben.
Seit Jahren weitet der See sich aus und verschluckt Bauernhöfe, Schulen und touristische Einrichtungen. Beamte des #Kenya Wildlife Service sagen, dass die Änderungen schon seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt unmöglich zu ignorieren waren.
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https://cpmk.org/87-recent-news/444-the-vanguard-is-not-a-matter-of-opinion
Banger of a read from Kenya.
>Communists should indeed reject sectarianism.
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>Sectarianism isolates revolutionaries from the masses.
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>It substitutes slogans for investigation.
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>It mistakes organisational isolation for ideological purity.
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>But there exists another danger.
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>Liquidationism.
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>Liquidationism dissolves the communist party into the general Left.
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>It blurs ideological distinctions.
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>It dismisses organisational discipline.
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>It celebrates diversity while abandoning revolutionary coherence.
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>If sectarianism builds walls where bridges are necessary, liquidationism removes the foundations upon which the bridge itself must stand.
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>Marxism Leninism rejects both.---Booker Ngesa Omole
#politics
#kenya
#socialism
#communism
#marxism
#MarxismLeninism
#leninism
#vanguardism
#sectarianism
#liquidationism
#BookerNgesaOmole
#BookerOmole
#capitalism
#neocolonialism
#neoimperialism
#colonialism
#imperialism
#theory
#practice
#praxis
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https://cpmk.org/87-recent-news/444-the-vanguard-is-not-a-matter-of-opinion
Banger of a read from Kenya.
>Communists should indeed reject sectarianism.
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>Sectarianism isolates revolutionaries from the masses.
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>It substitutes slogans for investigation.
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>It mistakes organisational isolation for ideological purity.
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>But there exists another danger.
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>Liquidationism.
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>Liquidationism dissolves the communist party into the general Left.
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>It blurs ideological distinctions.
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>It dismisses organisational discipline.
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>It celebrates diversity while abandoning revolutionary coherence.
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>If sectarianism builds walls where bridges are necessary, liquidationism removes the foundations upon which the bridge itself must stand.
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>Marxism Leninism rejects both.---Booker Ngesa Omole
#politics
#kenya
#socialism
#communism
#marxism
#MarxismLeninism
#leninism
#vanguardism
#sectarianism
#liquidationism
#BookerNgesaOmole
#BookerOmole
#capitalism
#neocolonialism
#neoimperialism
#colonialism
#imperialism
#theory
#practice
#praxis
#HistoricalMaterialism
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Migrating wildebeest crossing Mara River in Masai Mara, Kenya
© Manoj Shah/Getty Images
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How #China’s #AI Is Surging Across #Africa
At first, it seemed a losing bet. #UnitedStates dominated #opensource AI Meta offered #Llama that developers used worldwide. Then Meta turned to closed models.
Breakthroughs came quickly. In Dec 2024 #DeepSeek AI model matched best models at fraction of cost. Last month, Chinese #MoonshotAI released a model with coding abilities approaching leading #US system.
In #Kenya developers embraced Chinese models.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/ai-china-africa.html
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The grid inside the grid
Africa’s new AI factories promise digital sovereignty. Their electricity deals may instead create private power islands inside public systems.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/07/the-grid-inside-the-grid"That requires more than celebratory language about sovereignty. Governments should disclose the electricity, water, land, tax, and guarantee arrangements attached to large data center projects."
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https://www.nigrizia.it/notizia/kenya-abusi-piantagione-ananas-del-monte
La piantagione di ananas della Del Monte in Kenya – una quarantina di chilometri quadrati nelle contee di Kiambu e Murang’a, pochi chilometri a nord-est di Nairobi – continua a fare notizia per le gravi violazioni dei diritti umani della popolazione locale. Violazioni che vengono denunciate da decenni senza che le parole di condanna degli stessi vertici della multinazionale e i provvedimenti che ne conseguono si traducano in fatti.
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Kenya may be only roughly the size of Texas, but it takes environmental protection seriously, with a whopping 27 national parks. And that’s not counting national reserves like Samburu, Maasai Mara,… #travel #kenya #safari
Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass
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Harambee Starlets crashed out of WAFCON 2026 after a 2-0 defeat to Algeria. Coach Beldine Odemba’s side failed to score in all three group games in Morocco.
#WAFCON2026 #footballnews #kenya #footballnewsanddupdates #algeria #Football
https://www.mondiaries.com/2026/08/wafcon-2026-kenya-fail-to-score-again.html
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29-Jul-2026
#InvasiveSpecies emerge as a driver of human #displacement, new research shows
In #kenya Opuntia stricta has displaced pastoralist communities, while the invasive little #fireAnt has led to farm abandonment in #NewCaledonia, the #Galápagos Islands and #FrenchPolynesia. #WaterHyacinth has disrupted fishing livelihoods in much of Africa.https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1138014 #science #ecology
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Kenyans protesting #nuclear facility face #terrorism investigation
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/kenyans-protesting-nuclear-facility-face-terrorism-investigation/Following protests at a public meeting about a proposed nuclear power plant in #Kenya, one person was shot and several residents were arrested. The Kenyan government plans to build a 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant near Bondo, a town in Siaya County near Lake Victoria.
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Pesticide-sprayed tomatoes suspected to have killed 15 elephants in Kenya https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9e0v5xmdyo?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
#Kenya #environment #farming #pesticides #wildlife #elephants
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Harambee Starlets: Coach Beldine Odemba and keeper Lilian Awuor target defensive improvement as Kenya take on Algeria in their last WAFCON group game.
#WAFCON2026 #Football #footballnews #kenya #footballnewsanddupdates #algeria
https://www.mondiaries.com/2026/08/do-or-die-kenya-face-algeria-for-first.html
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#Mozambique #Angola #Nairobi #Kenya #Japon #Japan #Australia #Australie #Sydney #Canberra #Philippines #Laos #Cambodge #Vietnam #Mongolie #India #Inde #Bangalore #Punjab #Brisbane
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MOOF Africa in Nanyuki, Kenya 🌍 empowers communities through agroecology & permaculture 🌱, ensuring food sovereignty 🍽️ and ecological restoration 🌳. A true model of sustainability! https://agroecologymap.org/l/334 #Agroecology #Permaculture #FoodSovereignty #Kenya #Sustainability
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Interesting and informative and a welcome change from all the other stuff in my news timeline 👍🌝
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‘Free up the ganja’: Rastafarians in Kenya fight to legalise marijuana
By Carlos Mureithi in NairobiMarijuana plays a sacred role among Rastafari followers and they say a ruling to criminalise it violates their rights
#Kenya #Cannabis #Worldnews #Society #Africa #Drugs #Religion #Freedomofreligion #TheGuardian #CarlosMureithiinNairobi