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Geoffrey Kamadi

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Yala Swamp Saga: Broken Promises, Idle Land

This story was produced in partnership with InfoNile and Code for Africa with support from the Pulitzer Center. The story of Yala Swamp and Dominion Farms Limited reads like any sad, unfortunate tale, typical of land acquisition deals gone awry. Often times involving big, powerful companies and local, poor communities, the script almost certainly reads the same. Usually, the community […]
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As Drought Scavenges Turkana, Children are Going Hungry

Bakari Ang’ela There are fears that harsh weather conditions in Turkana County could aggravate the food shortage crisis with concerns pupils will drop out of school. More pupils are going hungry after organisations that used to supplement government’s school feeding programmes, suspended their help over delayed funding. The County education quality and standard assurance officer Mr. […]
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Nile perch threatened in East Africa

Geoffrey Kamadi Geoffrey Kamadi Eunice Atieno Ong’iro, 34, slices open a Nile perch and pulls out an off-white organ, hardly a fistful in size. She places it on a scale, jots down its weight in a notebook and stores it away in a plastic bag. In just a few seconds the process is complete and […]
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