Africa: When Protecting Local Traders Turns Foreigners Into Targets

[African Arguments] 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