Trapped in the crossfire, Kenyan workers plead for evacuation

 

Eulita Cherop and Lucy Nyarangi are among Kenyans stranded in Lebanon. [Courtesy]

From the twelfth-floor apartment along Seifeddine El Khatib Street in Nasra, Beirut, Noreen Wacu watched in terror as an explosion a few blocks away sent plumes of grey smoke billowing into the sky.

For weeks, she had clung to hope that the war brewing in the south would not creep into the Lebanese capital. But on this grim Sunday,...