Four travel hacks that may keep you safe this Christmas

Travellers at Kisumu Bus Park wait for matatus to ferry them home ahead of the festive season, with some stranded for more than an hour. [Rodgers Otiso, Standard]

Road travel has become an existential peril on parts of Kenya’s highway network. Researchers estimate that road fatalities have increased fourfold over the past three decades.

Roughly three-quarters of those killed or injured are economically productive young adults, placing the very core of Kenya’s growth engine at risk from an epidemic of preventable deaths.