Kenya’s Poor Need Different Lockdown Restrictions to Survive, Scientists Urge

NAIROBI, Apr 19 (IPS) – After Joseph Mandu lost his job because of the country’s coronavirus lockdown, he would still wake every morning and leave his home in the City Carton slum in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. But instead of heading to the restaurant he worked at as a pool-table attendant, he would walk around City Carton searching for odd jobs to earn an income so he could pay for the food his family needed to survive.

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