A year long investigation by #BBCAfricaEye has uncovered damning evidence of a thriving underground network in Kenya that snatches babies from their mothers and sells them for a profit. The secretive and highly lucrative trade preys on the country’s most vulnerable, stealing children from the streets and even the maternity ward of a major government hospital. Njeri Mwangi reports from Nairobi.

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UPDATE: 🇰🇪 Three years since the broadcast of the 2020 investigation ‘The Baby Stealers’, #BBCAfricaEye revisits some of Nairobi’s poorest neighbourhoods to find out what impact the investigation had in the fight against child trafficking in Kenya. Watch 'What Happened to the Baby Stealers?' here: 🎦 https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rswDstGDyvs

You can also watch the second follow-up documentary, 'The Baby Stealers: A Mother's Story', here: https://youtu.be/n7r0ZmQnhHg

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The Baby Stealers - BBC Africa Eye Documentary