Nightmare in Nairobi with no daylight on the horizon

Rapes and beheadings are only the beginnings of the horror from the squalor of the slums, writes Juno McEnroe in Kenya.

A BROKEN cot, mud-stained rugs and torn sacks with her children’s clothes are the precious few belongings Aunice Odhiambo still has after she and her family were run out of their slum home by armed roaming gangs.

Clinging to her children, the young mother describes how a week ago, a crowd of 50 teenagers and men carrying pangas and machettes surrounded her small shack in the Kariobangi slum, in east Nairobi.