‘People Who Are Salaried Are Crying’: Taxes on Workers Add to Debt Misery
The pay stubs tell the story. Hefty deductions to help cover the cost of Kenya’s new funds for affordable housing ...
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Kenyan Lawmaker Is Shot Dead by Motorcycle-Riding Assailant
A Kenyan lawmaker was gunned down on a busy Nairobi street by a motorcycle-riding assassin on Wednesday evening, in what ...
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U.N. Orders Agencies to Find Budget Cuts, Including via Staff Moves From N.Y.
The United Nations, anticipating that President Trump will slash U.S. contributions to the global body, has told its departments to ...
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When Kenyan Maids Sought Help Overseas, Diplomats Demanded Sex
Selestine Kemoli fled to the Kenyan Embassy in Riyadh in 2020, terrified and desperate.Ms. Kemoli had been working in Saudi ...
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Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia
Feith Shimila Murunga says her boss groped, beat and raped her.Mary Wanjiru Nyambura says she was thrown from a balcony.Winfridah ...
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The Impact of Shrinking Resources in Uganda, Seen Through a Reporter’s Eyes
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Across ...
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Amid Regional Diplomatic Furor, Sudan’s Paramilitaries Forge a Rival Government
The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group fighting Sudan’s military in the country’s calamitous civil war, signed a political charter ...
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Despite Attacks, an Underground Church for L.G.B.T.Q. Africans Thrives
For nearly a decade, Kenya’s only church led and attended by L.G.B.T.Q. people has been chased out of one location ...
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