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World in Progress: Collapsing houses in Nairobi

Linda Staude
September 13, 2017

Many poor people in Narobi, Kenya, live in apartment buildings that are unsafe. Warning signals, like cracks in the walls, are often overlooked, or played down by the landllords. But a number of tenement buildings have collapsed over the past few months, and several dozen people have been killed because they were not able to leave their homes in time.

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(Report: Linda Staude/ presenter: Neil King)