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A general view shows the coffins of victims of the Utumishi Girls' Academy Senior School as mourners pray during a memorial mass amid growing concern over a wave of school fires across Kenya at Gilgil Stadium in Gilgil, on June 12, 2026. [AFP]
Almost 50 fires have ripped through Kenyan schools this year, 16 schoolgirls have died, and more than 100 schools have temporarily closed. Everyone knows there is a crisis, but few have solutions.
To many, Kenya's strange and deadly spate of arson attacks is the result of an education system buckling under chronic funding shortfalls and corruption.
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