When protecting local traders turns foreigners into targets

On Dennis Pritt Road in Nairobi’s Kilimani district, long queues formed outside the Burundian embassy on 7 September. People were waiting for laissez-passers, temporary travel documents enabling them to return home without valid passports. The embassy had offered to issue them free of charge. Early social-media reports also referred to Congolese nationals preparing to leave Kenya. None of those in line had necessarily received an individual deportation order. They were responding to something less formal but already powerful: the expectation that remaining in Kenya might soon become unsafe or impossible. Five days earlier, President William Ruto had told representatives of […] The post When protecting local traders turns foreigners into targets appeared first on African Arguments.