Smothered by roads
Nairobi’s tag line might be the ‘green city in the sun’, but over the past year there has been a constant assault on the green part. The government of Kenya has cut at least 200 trees across the capital and plans to cull several more while building an elevated highway to connect the airport in the east to the western suburbs. It will be constructed over the top of the main road that currently runs across the width of the country, from Kenya’s coast all the way to the border with Uganda. All this in the shadow of a pandemic that has forced a record-breaking number of private cars onto the road.
