<span style="color: #222222;">A Kenyan girl has been sentenced to five years in jail for manslaughter over a school dormitory fire that killed nine of her colleagues.<br />'' <br />'' The 18-year-old committed the offence in 2017 while aged 14 in her first year of secondary school at the Moi Girls School in the capital, Nairobi.<br />'' <br />'' The court had heard that she had attempted to take her own life twice before she started the fire in her cubicle.<br />'' <br />'' The parents and guardians of the girls who died in the fire say the sentence is lenient but are glad justice has been served, local media report.<br />'' <br />''<br />''Arson has become a common problem at Kenyan boarding schools over the last two decades.</span><br />