Inside Kenya’s Hidden War Between Mungiki and the Kwekwe Police Squad

Kenya’s history of organized crime and police operations includes a chapter that remains painful for many families: the confrontation between the Mungiki movement and a specialized police unit commonly known as the Kwekwe Squad.The conflict, which intensified in the 2000s, involved violent criminal activities attributed to Mungiki and a government security crackdown that later attracted serious allegations of unlawful killings and disappearances.