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United by love, divided by law

Some Kenyans in the UK lead troubled lives. Their woes are increased by continually changing immigration laws that threaten to break up families. Resentment of foreigners also fuels racial discrimination in the society. SHAMLAL PURI talks to some victims.

In the bowels of Scotland sits heartbroken husband James McAllister, who has spent the last two years waiting for his Kenyan wife, Vera Akinyi, some 7,500 kilometres away in Nairobi, to join him in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

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