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Kenya files complaint on China evictions over coronavirus

Foreign Affairs CS Raychelle Omamo (centre) during a meeting on the coronavirus with the National Assembly's Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, February 27, 2020. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NATION MEDIA GROUP 

By  Aggrey Mutambo

Editor - Africa & International

Nation Media Group

Kenya says it has raised a complaint with Beijing over footage of Kenyans sleeping on pavements and complaining of forced evictions.

Nairobi says, however, that it was aware that China was imposing new rules to curb the Covid-19, including mass testing of people.

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