内容摘要："It was miraculous that I got across because I was training with men who were born in a pair of Speedos," he jokes. "They were faster swimmers than me, better swimmers than me, their technique was much better than mine.

"It was miraculous that I got across because I was training with men who were born in a pair of Speedos," he jokes. "They were faster swimmers than me, better swimmers than me, their technique was much better than mine.

But many in India can't afford shoes from well-known brands.Serving them is a huge and intricate network of small shoe makers, known as the unorganised sector.

Their affordable products are estimated to account for two-thirds of the total footwear market.Ashok (he withheld his full name) counts himself as part of that sector, with shoe making units all across the district of Agra in northern India. He estimates that 200,0000 pairs of shoes are made everyday by operations like his across Agra."Many consumers, especially in rural and lower-income urban areas, opt for cheaper local footwear instead of branded options," he says.

"Many organised brands struggle to expand their retail footprint in semi-urban and rural areas because we cater to them."So how will the new government standards affect makers like Ashok?

"It's complicated," says Mr Sharma.

"I think the government is trying to walk a tightrope here. They can't just shut down thousands of small businesses that employ millions of people - that would be economic suicide.Mwangi said his "abduction" was shocking in how brazen it was as he had been "picked from a very prominent hotel".

"So having been abducted during broad daylight and never knowing where I was, and I was still tortured, means that the Tanzanian government doesn't care about what people think about it," he told the BBC.Earlier, Atuhaire said that despite Uganda being "very dictatorial", she did not imagine she "would find a worse foreign country, a worse government".

Mwangi said their experience showed "how broken" countries in East Africa were."So it makes me more of a pan-African in this fight," he told the BBC.