Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

How WhatsApp mums saved Kenya’s castaway children

While the diplomats did nothing, mothers negotiated the Lollipop Airlift that would bring their kids home

Thousands of children were stranded at schools in the old country when the UK put Kenya on the red list [philou1000] 
issue 03 July 2021

Kenya

In March, Global Britain signed a new, post-Brexit trade deal with Kenya. This was a welcome agreement for my homeland, where the pandemic has caused tremendous economic suffering, but where comparatively few deaths have occurred among the fit, young population. Weeks later, on 9 April, the UK condemned its former colony to the red list of countries.

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