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Empty seats at a boarding gate, seen through a window, at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya, December 23, 2020. AP
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Young Somali refugee women at Dadaab refugee complex, in the north-east of Kenya, on April 16, 2018. The Dadaab refugee complex which has some 235269 refugees and asylum seekers in four camps about 80kms from the Somali-Kenyan border was established in 1991. AFP
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The Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 19, 2011 in Dadaab, Kenya. Getty
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Somalian refugees wait in the registration area of the Ifo refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 20, 2011 in Dadaab, Kenya. Getty
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Volunteers from Sonko Rescue Team, an NGO privately funded by Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko, fumigate a street to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 6, 2020. AFP
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Kenyan school children wear face masks while walking to school as they resume in-class learning after a nine-month disruption caused by the pandemic, in Nairobi on January 4. AFP
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An unidentified hospital worker attends to a patient outside the consultation cubicle at the emergency section of the Kenyatta National Hospital during a doctors' strike, amid the spread of the coronavirus, in Nairobi, Kenya December 21, 2020. Reuters
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Children spin hot steel wool to spread sparks of fire on a street in Nairobi's Kibera slum on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2020. AFP
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Kenyan womenwearing face masks pose for a photo next to an iconic century-old fig tree decorated with lights during New Year eve, in Westlands district of Nairobi, Kenya, 31 December 2020. EPA
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Empty seats at a boarding gate, seen through a window, at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya, December 23, 2020. AP
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Young Somali refugee women at Dadaab refugee complex, in the north-east of Kenya, on April 16, 2018. The Dadaab refugee complex which has some 235269 refugees and asylum seekers in four camps about 80kms from the Somali-Kenyan border was established in 1991. AFP
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The Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 19, 2011 in Dadaab, Kenya. Getty
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Somalian refugees wait in the registration area of the Ifo refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 20, 2011 in Dadaab, Kenya. Getty
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Volunteers from Sonko Rescue Team, an NGO privately funded by Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko, fumigate a street to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 6, 2020. AFP
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Kenyan school children wear face masks while walking to school as they resume in-class learning after a nine-month disruption caused by the pandemic, in Nairobi on January 4. AFP
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An unidentified hospital worker attends to a patient outside the consultation cubicle at the emergency section of the Kenyatta National Hospital during a doctors' strike, amid the spread of the coronavirus, in Nairobi, Kenya December 21, 2020. Reuters
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Children spin hot steel wool to spread sparks of fire on a street in Nairobi's Kibera slum on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2020. AFP
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Kenyan womenwearing face masks pose for a photo next to an iconic century-old fig tree decorated with lights during New Year eve, in Westlands district of Nairobi, Kenya, 31 December 2020. EPA
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Empty seats at a boarding gate, seen through a window, at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya, December 23, 2020. AP
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