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How county government has failed Nairobi's street children

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Street children along Uhuru highway as traffic jam builds up. [Denish Ochieng, standard]

It's around 7am on a Saturday morning at Globe Cinema roundabout in Nairobi and the hooting noises from matatus entering the city centre are deafening at close range.

But a few metres away, some street urchins are dead asleep under the pillars and pavement below the overpass, holding tightly onto plastic bottles containing glue.

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