Charities, or NGOs, working in Kenya risk losing their licenses if they fail to comply with new tough rules about employing foreigners.
The authorities say that, with some exceptions, foreigners should not be employed if there are Kenyans who can do the job.
The large disparity between what foreigners and Kenyans can earn has also been criticised.
An estimated 240,000 people work for NGOs in Kenya, mostly local staff.
Kenya is a regional hub for NGOs, with aid agencies working in countries from Democratic Republic of Congo to South Sudan based in the country.
Charities play a large role in providing essential services in Kenya, observers say, with some running schools and clinics.
One international NGO told the BBC that higher pay for foreigners was essential as they are working far from home.
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Home affairs ‘secretly deporting Zimbabweans, Malawians’
Asylum seekers The Citizen spoke to said ‘it seems to be up to your luck if you get asked to go to the “deportation room”‘.
According to two Malawian brothers who have been living in South Africa for more than 10 years, home affairs is “’randomly deporting” Malawians and Zimbabweans, and perhaps people of other nationalities too.
One of the brothers, Andy (not his real name), told The Citizen how, earlier this month, he and his brother went to the home affairs offices at the showgrounds in Pretoria to have their asylum-seeker papers stamped to allow them to live and work in South Africa legally for another three months. He claimed that he was then “sent into a different room than my brother. He got his papers stamped, but I was asked to wait in this other room; it was me and some other guys, about 15 of us. Our names were called from behind a section. They said ‘just sign these papers’, and we signed before we could read what was going on there. It was something like a letter and it was in my folder with all my papers from, like, 2010.
“We were told to wait. I wanted to know what was happening, so I walked out of the room and found an official, another woman, sitting somewhere else.
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Kenya launches crackdown on foreign charity workers
Charities, or NGOs, working in Kenya risk losing their licenses if they fail to comply with new tough rules about employing foreigners.
The authorities say that, with some exceptions, foreigners should not be employed if there are Kenyans who can do the job.
The large disparity between what foreigners and Kenyans can earn has also been criticised.
An estimated 240,000 people work for NGOs in Kenya, mostly local staff.
Kenya is a regional hub for NGOs, with aid agencies working in countries from Democratic Republic of Congo to South Sudan based in the country.
Charities play a large role in providing essential services in Kenya, observers say, with some running schools and clinics.
One international NGO told the BBC that higher pay for foreigners was essential as they are working far from home.
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Taiwan Luxury Mega Club Absurdities vs. African Dance Bars
For a small town where locals do not make much money, the small rural Tanzanian town of Iringa, where I reside, is surprisingly not devoid of nightlife spots.
Blaring into the town’s dark main streets on Friday nights are the sounds of American hip-hop mixed with distinctive local Tanzanian pop music. Inside the makeshift shacks that are home to the music, joyfully dancing local live bands and DJs are joined on the dance floor by crowds of both locals and expats (usually white Americans or Europeans), grooving to tunes that are often not found in Western clubs dominated by electronic or house music.
The term “dance floor” here does not imply a special setup with step-up stages or bright lighting. They are concrete-floored open spaces right in front of the band and DJ. The wooden shack nightspots are restaurants that are open until late night and serve alcohol. They play music and clear out a space in their usual dense assortment of dining tables and chairs, allowing enthusiastic diners to let loose. Observing the alcohol-infused euphoria of the dancing crowd, it seems that keeping the place dark and the music loud more than makes up for the lack of sophisticated sound and light systems.
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SITUATION REPORT: VIOLENCE FLARES IN EASTERN LIBYA
An armed group, the Benghazi Defense Forces (also referred to as Defend Benghazi Brigades and the Benghazi Defence Brigades), and members of the Ajdabiya Liberation Operations Chamber clashed with Libyan National Army (LNA) forces near Ajdabiya in northern Libya on 18 and 19 June. The fighting, near several oil fields, left a number of people dead.
The Benghazi Defense Forces has claimed that it is fighting under the authority of Sadiq Abdulrahman Ali Alghariani, the Grand Mufti of Libya. In response, the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) has declared a state of emergency and placed the area between Ben Jawad and Tobruk under control of the LNA. The LNA has accused the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) of facilitating the Benghazi Defense Forces’ access to Ajdabiya.
The development in Ajdabiya coincides with ongoing fighting in Sirte, located further east. Forces loyal to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and allied PFG are battling Islamist State (IS) fighters in Sirte.
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