NAIROBI — A Zimbabwean at the centre of a deportation ordeal that led to her detention at airports in five countries has died.
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Agnes Galawu Nemakonde was imprisoned at Kenya’s Lang’ata Women’s Prison where she fell ill and was admitted to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).
KNH public relations officer Simon Ithae on Tuesday confirmed Nemakonde’s death, but did not disclose what she was suffering from.
Last week, Nemakonde was in court complaining about the facilities at the Lang’ata jail. The court, however, dismissed the application and ordered that she continues being detained at the prison.
Though the United Nations High Commission for Refugees had agreed to facilitate her stay in Kenya, it later said her conduct had compromised its ability to discharge its functions.
Her lawyer had also asked the court not to return her to Lang’ata prison due to the state of the facilities there and suggested that she be freed and ordered to report to the police station periodically.
The court, however, still ruled that she stays in Lang’ata where she went on a hunger strike and later fell ill.
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Nemakonde was deported from Scotland last year and since then, has been detained in Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa and Kenya.
