'It's like a dog set loose on us' - fear over Kenya's crackdown on foreign traders
"If our work is stopped, we lose the income that enables us to pay rent and buy food. A day later, he ordered India's Tata Chemicals to leave the country, saying the company had not provided sufficient benefits to the local Maasai community in Kajiado county.Tata has been mining soda ash for years in Lake Magadi, a vast area often covered by a whitish salt crust.
- ▪"If our work is stopped, we lose the income that enables us to pay rent and buy food.
- ▪A day later, he ordered India's Tata Chemicals to leave the country, saying the company had not provided sufficient benefits to the local Maasai community in Kajiado county.Tata has been mining soda ash for years in Lake Magadi, a vast area
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'It's like a dog set loose on us' - fear over Kenya's crackdown on foreign tradersImage source, BBC/Brian KhisaImage caption, Burundian tuk-tuk driver Ndaikech Ali says Kenya, which has been so welcoming to him for years, now feels hostileByBasillioh RukangaPublished6 minutes agoFor Ndaikech Ali, who has been traversing the streets of the Kenyan capital eking out a living as a tuk-tuk driver for the past nine years, Nairobi's traffic - not xenophobia - has been his biggest concern.During his time in the East African nation, the Burundian says he has always found Kenyans to be friendly and welcoming - that is until last week, when the president ordered a crackdown on foreigners working as traders or operating small-scale businesses."Now they have turned against us," he told the BBC at the…
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