By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) — An ambitious road construction project in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has demolished some 13,000 homes in the informal housing of Mukuru Kwa Njenga, technically a slum, ignoring human rights and leaving some 40,000 people homeless, says Diana Gichengo of Amnesty International Kenya.
Schools, businesses and homes across nearly 100 acres have been demolished since October as the government constructs the so-called “road for the rich” while others, forced by poverty, will be left to walk.