As the world marked the International Day of Air Quality on Monday, Ms. Eileen Sidi and her two children aged four months and four years had nothing to celebrate.
Ms Sidi and other residents off Mombasa Road in Nairobi, are experiencing severe health problems because of pollution from a nearby cooking oil factory.
Comment by Philip Osano, SEI Africa Director, in the Nation.
SEI Africa in Nairobi is partnering with others to monitor air quality in Kenya to inform policy change.
The Nairobi county approached the UN Environment Programme (Unep) which, together with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), installed an automatic real-time air quality sensor in January 2020.
The air quality equipment is supposed to provide residents with pollution early-warning, identify pollution hotspots and encourage behaviour change among industries to avoid polluting.
Dr Philip Osano, Director of SEI Africa
Two sensors—one from Unep and another installed by Nema—have already picked up on high pollution levels of PM2.5.
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