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Hundreds of Burundian nationals gather outside the embassy as they seek clearance ahead of the Kenyan government’s deadline. [David Gichuru, Standard]
The papers are crumpled, the faces are tired and the uncertainty is palpable.
Outside the Burundian Embassy along Denis Pritt Road in Nairobi, families huddle in small groups, clutching documents as if they were lifelines.
Some have spent the night on the pavement and on the roadside, too afraid to return to the places they have called home for years and too broke to begin the journey back to Burundi.
