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Trump gives Kenyan gays and sex workers a lifeline

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The US has declined to fund a national census of gays, sex workers and drug injectors in Kenya that proposed to collect their fingerprints, iris and toe scans.

The Ministry of Health has been planning a national census of these groups since 2016 but has met strong resistance from civil rights groups.

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