Could Kenya have prevented the hotel siege?
IMHO a good review of why, although from a faraway armchair/ It ends:Link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46921249Yet again, Kenya has suffered a big loss and as its people come to terms with this week's events they will wonder why it has to take catastrophe for more lessons to be learned.
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Nairobi slum reveals the vast challenges facing Africa's megacities
A rare descriptive article on African urbanization and in The Daily Telegraph too. The dilemma is acute now, let alone in the future:Link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/nairobi-slum-reveals-vast-challenges-facing-africas-megacities/?Slum life is therefore overcrowded, wretched, dangerous and — because of high levels of unemployment — often violent. With many African cities now consisting of increasingly prosperous pockets surrounded by vast swathes of resentful indigence, political insecurity is also a risk.
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