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Search for town jobs pushes 10 million Kenyans to slum poverty

A section of Mukuru Kayaba in Nairobi on Thursday, September 12 2019. [David Njaaga, Standard]

One in every five Kenyans lives in slum areas without access to basic amenities, according to the government.

This is fuelled by the influx of people to urban areas as they look to better their lives with expectations of finding higher-paying jobs. The migration has led to what the National Treasury refers to as ‘urbanisation of poverty’.

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