Like many members of the ethnic-Somali community in Kenya, 60-year-old Abdi Khalif Aden has never had a national ID despite multiple attempts to get one.
Aden has been clinging on to his uncle's identification card as the only thing that offers some tentative proof he was born in Kenya.
Typically for his pastoralist community, Aden was born at home and has no birth certificate.
He has therefore faced a rigorous process in front of a vetting panel to acquire a national ID card -- something most Kenyans get automatically. "Being without an ID is very hard," he told AFP. "You can't even move around...
