Kenya's missing children crisis exposes system gaps

When 17-year-old Ramsy Karani disappeared from his home in Kayole, a densely populated residential estate in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, his family was thrust into a reality that an increasing number of Kenyan parents are confronting: the uncertainty and anguish of not knowing where a child has gone. Karani’s relatives joined hundreds of other families across Kenya whose children’s faces circulate daily on social media posters, WhatsApp groups and databases of missing persons. “This is the first time this has happened. Ramsy never leaves the house, he is always indoors. We are asking for his return,” said his mother, Doris Kamathi. […]...

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