Why Was Kenya's U-15 Football Team Forced to Sleep Outside?
Whether Olympic athletes or its youth football teams, Kenya has a troubling pattern of leaving its athletes in unsafe travel and sleeping conditions.
On the night of 10 December 2025, photographs spread rapidly across Kenyan social media showing the country’s U15 boys’ and girls’ football teams sleeping on tiled floors and benches inside St. Mary’s Kitende, a boarding school and host venue in Kampala, Uganda. The teams had just completed competition at the CAF African Schools Football Championship and were preparing to return to Nairobi when their scheduled buses failed to arrive.
The missed departure created a legal quandary. Under Kenyan regulations, junior teams are prohibited from travelling at night. Once the transport delay pushed the departure time past the permitted window, the delegation could not legally travel ba…
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