Kenya's missing children crisis exposes system gaps
Key takeaways
- Families across Kenya are grappling with missing children cases, as gaps in child protection systems come under scrutiny and authorities dispute claims of a worsening crisis
- Karani's relatives joined hundreds of other families across Kenya whose children's faces circulate daily on social media posters, WhatsApp groups and databases of missing persons.
- Ramsy never leaves the house, he is always indoors.
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Families across Kenya are grappling with missing children cases, as gaps in child protection systems come under scrutiny and authorities dispute claims of a worsening crisis
https://p.dw.com/p/5En OPMissing children, abductions, trafficking and abandonment have renewed scrutiny of Kenya's child protection systems Image: Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency/picture alliance Advertisement When 17-year-old Ramsy Karani disappeared from his home in Kayole, a densely populated residential estate in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, his family was thrust into a reality that an increasing number of Kenyan parents are confronting: the uncertainty and anguish of not knowing where a child has gone.
Karani's relatives joined hundreds of other families across Kenya whose children's faces circulate daily on social media posters, WhatsApp groups and databases of missing persons.