We have no home to go to, say Burundians in Kitengela

Archade Nshimirimana, 34, beauty parlor owner at Kitengela town on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi in this photo taken on September 8 2026.


Photo credit: Stanley Ngotho | Nation Media Group

On Tuesday, September 8, in Kitengela, a bustling cosmopolitan township south of Nairobi, Archade Nshimirimana, 34, sat quietly on a bench outside his beauty parlour, staring into the distance as anxiety and uncertainty visibly gripped him.

For a man who spent over a decade building a life in Kenya, the government's crackdown on foreign nationals operating small businesses had suddenly cast his future in doubt.