Kenyan Students Speak Out on School Fires

Protesting secondary school students target dormitories for destruction because they perceive them as the most valuable buildings around, students have told a taskforce. Students have blamed the wave of protests in schools on teachers' high-handedness, transfers of popular teachers and lack of entertainment facilities.

Kisii residents watch as fire consumes a dormitory at Kisii High School on July 10, 2018.

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