{"id":262,"date":"2026-09-28T10:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=262"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:15:19","slug":"mps-expose-plight-of-kenyans-stranded-and-abused-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"MPS EXPOSE PLIGHT OF KENYANS STRANDED AND ABUSED IN EGYPT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By. Philes Isaboke <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parliament has opened a probe into Kenyans stranded in Egypt. MPs heard testimonies that domestic workers had passports confiscated, denied pay, and labeled illegal. Some have slept outside the Kenyan Embassy in Cairo for weeks. The Embassy is said to be understaffed. The Foreign Affairs Ministry will send a fact-finding mission next week. &#8220;We cannot abandon our people,&#8221; said one committee member. Families in Mombasa and Nairobi&#8217;s Eastlands are pleading for rescue. Hotline for families: Diaspora Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260928-WA3219-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260928-WA3219-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260928-WA3219-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260928-WA3219-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260928-WA3219-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260928-WA3219.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By. Philes Isaboke Parliament has opened a probe into Kenyans stranded in Egypt. MPs heard testimonies that domestic workers had passports confiscated, denied pay, and labeled illegal. Some have slept outside the Kenyan Embassy in Cairo for weeks. The Embassy is said to be understaffed. The Foreign Affairs Ministry will send a fact-finding mission next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}