Kenya's missing children crisis exposes system gaps

Key points

• Families across Kenya are grappling with missing children cases, as gaps in child protection systems come under scrutiny and authorities dispute claims of a worsening crisis When 17-year-old Ramsy Karani disappeared from his home in Kayole, a densely populated residential estate in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, his family was thrust into a reality that an increasing number of Kenyan parents are confronting: the uncertainty and anguish of not knowing where a child has gone.
• Karani's relatives joined hundreds of other families across Kenya whose children's faces circulate daily on social media posters, WhatsApp groups and databases of missing persons.
• "This is the first time this has happened.
• Ramsy never leaves the house, he is always indoors.
• We are asking for his return," said his mother, Doris Kamathi.