Browsing: abductions in Kenya

• Tanzanian traders afraid to go to Kenya fearing potential attacks.
• Fears sparked by recent cases of abduction, torture and deportation visited on Kenyan activists by authorities in Tanzania.
• President William Ruto apologized to Tanzania. 

Following the torture, inhumane treatment and deportation visited on Kenyan and Ugandan activists in Tanzania recently, a number of cross-border traders in Tanzania are afraid to go to Kenya fearing potential attacks. In an exclusive interview with The Exchange, several Tanzanian business persons, mostly women, have expressed their concerns over potential attacks on Tanzanians.

“I usually go to Nairobi every week to collect goods for my shop, but I am now afraid to go,” laments a business woman in Arusha (name withheld). The trader deals in second hand clothes and kitchenware, which she buys in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, for resale in Arusha, Tanzania.

She is one of several traders interviewed by this paper, who …