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Cry for our beloved children: Rising number of children's killings raising concern

From the scenic West Pokot in Rift Valley to colonial Kenya’s hedonistic valley of Naivasha and to the plains of Athi River on the outskirts of Nairobi, there was hue and cry for our beloved children.

In Naivasha, four miniature coffins bearing the remains of siblings, Melody Warigia (8 years), Willy Macharia (6), Samantha Njeri (4) and Whitney Nyambura (2) lay in the day’s weather, the young souls united in death as in life.

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