David Bett, Author at Orato

Debra Daisy with her baby at her sister's house. She now lives with her sister after her father kicked her out of their house for being pregnant. | David Bett

Nairobi teen facing poverty during pandemic turns to sex trade

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Afline Anyango is pictured at her coffin shop. Individuals and other shops purchase coffins from her.

Women making coffins are feared in Kenya

Wanja and other detainees at Sakan deportation facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Most of them have been forced to dress in hijabs as an absolute rule by their employers

Kenyan woman trapped in Saudi Arabia

A heap of tree trunks being arranged to erect a furnace for charcoal burning

Seeing the forest for the (illegal) trees

Anthony Mugendi

Ex-gang leader faces reckoning for years of killing, rape, and terror

Empty antiretroviral drug bottles in her house

HIV medicine shortage threatens thousands in Kenya