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<\/div>The advert warned applicants that Nairobi has\u00a0pickpockets and burglars. <\/strong>[File, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n A job advertisement by the Agence France-Presse (AFP), an international news agency based in Paris, France, has warned potential applicants of pickpockets and burglars in Nairobi.\n<\/p>\n AFP is looking for a Nairobi-based correspondent. <\/p>\n Announcing the vacancy on their official website, AFP warned the job-seekers, saying: \u201cSecurity should not be an obsession, but daily vigilance is necessary. Pickpocketing is commonplace. Armed attacks, including burglaries, take place from time to time.\u201d\n<\/p>\n That warning bemused several online users, who took to WhatsApp groups to joke about it, while others termed the description as \u201cstereotypical\u201d.<\/p>\n Human resources consultant, Wandera Kweyu, however, observes that AFP\u2019s message to the applicants was appropriate, given its international profile.\n<\/p>\n \u201cAFP is an international, non-governmental organisation governed by security protocols set by the United Nations (UN). In my opinion, the agency was highlighting to the applicants the hardship level in the country of posting,\u201d Wandera told The Standard<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n \u201cIn summary, they\u2019re saying \u2018Nairobi isn\u2019t a bad place, but you have to watch out. Honesty is one of the stand-out attributes among French people,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n According to Wandera, as is the case with all messages, the understanding of communication is based on one\u2019s own interpretation.\n<\/p>\n A 2018 report by the National Crime Research Centre says mugging, stealing, burglary, breakings and robbery with violence are the most crimes committed in Nairobi.\n<\/p>\n In the report, mugging, the most-reported crime in the capital city, had 68.8 per cent of total cases filed, followed by stealing (54.9 per cent), burglary and breakings with (51.1 per cent) and robbery with violence (30.2 per cent).\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The advert warned applicants that Nairobi has\u00a0pickpockets and burglars. [File, Standard] A job advertisement by the Agence France-Presse (AFP), an international news agency based in Paris, France, has warned potential applicants of pickpockets and burglars in Nairobi. AFP is looking for a Nairobi-based correspondent. Announcing the vacancy on their official website, AFP warned the job-seekers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}