Stateless Pemba community to be registered, receive identity cards

Immigration and Citizen Servises PS Julius Bitok (second right), Kilifi Governor Gideon Mungaro (right) and Kilifi North MP Owen Baya issue an ID waiting card to a member of the Pemba community at Karisa Maitha grounds, Kilifi. [Nehemiah Okwemba, Standard]

The process to recognise members of the Pemba tribe as Kenya's 47th tribe started on Wednesday at the Coast, marking the end of their suffering.

The tribe, who are traditionally fishermen from Pemba island of Zanzibar in Tanzania, claim they came to Kenya before the Second World War.