Sad story of Kenyans trapped in South Sudan

The Kenyan embassy in Juba has appealed to well-wishers to help bring the construction workers back home. [Photo: DALTON NYABUNDI/STANDARD]

For 12 agonising months, they lived in captivity, surviving on wild herbs, boiled sorghum, and “busaa” in a remote South Sudanese village controlled by heavily armed rebels.

This is the story of seven Kenyans living in a foreign land with no money and limited contact with the outside world.