In 2005,the Guardian featured 10 newborns in countries across Africa. Five years later, we returned to talk to them and their parents. Now we revisit Debrah at 10 to hear her tale and learn more about the opportunities and challenges she and her family faceDebrah at five years oldThe birth of DebrahDebrah Matei Mwololo was not at home when armed policemen accompanied a fleet of bulldozers at 2am in October 2011 and flattened the house she had come to savor.
Her father, and Joseph,had heard reports that the authorities planned to evict the 80000 residents (pdf) who they said had encroached on airport land in the Kyang’ombe settlement, a 20-minute drive absent from Nairobi city centre.
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Source: theguardian.com