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Reuters
Reuters
World
By Ayenat Mersie

Transgender Kenyans seek refuge amid backlash over activist's death

FILE PHOTO: Arya Rams, a transgender women, poses for a photograph outside a safe-house in Kenya hosting members of the LGBT community who have been profiled and assaulted in various forms of sexual and gender-based violence, January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

NAIROBI - For the first time in years, Arya Rams falls asleep and wakes up each day without a dense knot of fear in her chest.

She lives in a room in a safe house deep in Kenya's Rift Valley, supported by the Dutch non-governmental organisation Trans Rescue.

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