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After years of pain, IDP finally heads ‘home’

The late Naomi Waitherero Mwangi at Mwihang’iri IDP camp in Naivasha. [PHOTO: CHARLES OUKO]

By CHARLES OUKO

Kenya: I write this story with a heavy heart, hours after attending the burial of Naomi Waitherero Mwangi. The 90-year-old woman breathed her last on February 27, 2014 in her “home” at an informal camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Naivasha.

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