France, June 30 -- Evans Mwangi is one of several young Kenyans still missing since anti-government demonstrations shook the country in June and July 2024. His story captures the lingering pain that haunts many families - a reminder that while the protests transformed Kenya's political landscape, they also left deep scars.

Every morning, Mama Evans places a plastic chair outside her mabati house in Kayole and waits. It's the same spot where her 22-year-old son, Evansused to sit before he vanished during last year's protests driven by Gen Z (generation of people born between 1997 - 2012).

"One year. No answers. No body. Just silence," she says, gripping a worn photograph of him in a graduation gown. "If he's gone, let them give me his bo...