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A focus on Neocolonialism and the foreign intervention of erstwhile colonial leaders in African countries was our focus today on #VillageSquareAfrica. Sulaiman Aledeh was joined by the executive director, Centre for Public Accountability, Olufemi Lawson and Public affairs analyst, Jide Ojo.
It has never been a 'HAPPY JAMHURI DAY' for this family.In an attempt to wipe their name off history books the family of the man who took over from the late Dedan Kimathi and drove Kenya to independence in 1963 is in agony.
Kenya's Biggest Betrayal | Tuko TV - His second born son has survived three murder attempts, seen his first wife killed through poisoning and witnessed his elder brother suffocated to death. This is all because of a gift from Kenya's first president, land.
This is the story of Field Marshall Baimungi!He was killed in cold blood by officials of the very government he served diligently. Kenya’s first Minister of Lands as well as powerful Meru politicians are accused of being behind the troubles bedeviling Baimungi’s family.Their father is among scores of Kenyan freedom fighters whose stories remain untold, those who trooped into the forests to fight for their country only to lose their land, future and lives.
President Uhuru Kenyatta during his visit to the family a few years back, promised Baimungi's family he would deliver what his father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta had promised them. The wait is still on.
Struggling to support her family, Fauzia Muthoni left her home in Kenya for Qatar, where a labor broker promised her work as a receptionist.
Instead, she was taken to Saudi Arabia where was forced into domestic work for multiple families and physically abused. Unable to contact her family, she worked for months before finally escaping.
Now back in Kenya, Fauzia works with the KUDHEIHA, a Kenya-based union for domestic workers, educating women on their rights when they seek to migrate for work abroad.
An abusive system left Ethiopian domestic workers stranded in Lebanon for years.
Many African and Asian countries have banned the recruitment of domestic workers for countries in the Middle East who subscribe to the “kafala” system.Under the system, foreign maids are legally bound to their employer and have limited rights.Employers can take advantage of their position and many women are overworked, underpaid and physically abused.Testimonies from women who escaped and private recordings show a world of powerlessness and abuse, hidden behind closed doors.
One month ago, BBC Africa Eye released an investigation into child trafficking that sent shockwaves throughout Kenya. Many of the children featured in the film were stolen. But others were willingly sold by their own mothers, often for tiny sums. This is the story of one mother and her baby, trapped between poverty and the child traffickers.
A year long investigation by BBC Africa Eye has uncovered damning evidence of a thriving underground network in Kenya that snatches babies from their mothers and sells them for a profit. The secretive and highly lucrative trade preys on the country’s most vulnerable, stealing children from the streets and even the maternity ward of a major government hospital. Njeri Mwangi reports from Nairobi.Subscribe:
BBC Africa Eye uncovered an illegal network that lures women to India from Africa, where they are then forced into sex work to satisfy the demands of the many African men living in Delhi.The women are mostly from Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania and Rwanda.One woman, Grace, who was trafficked from Kenya, agreed to go undercover.
In Uganda, young women are leaving their homes to try and find jobs as domestic workers, but for some their new lives can lead to mistreatment and abuse.A charity in Kenya is calling for the introduction of laws to protect domestic workers, who are commonly referred to as ‘housegirls’, to ensure their safety.For BBC Africa Eye, reporter Nancy Kacungira has been investigating why young women living near Uganda’s border are leaving their villages to find work in Kenya.