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Plastic boat call at Mombasa's Jomo Kenyatta Public Beach

Members of the public during a beach clean-up exercise to keep the beach free of plastics at the Jomo Kenyatta Public Beach. At least more than six tonnes of plastics were collected along the beach. (Gideon Maundu, Standard)

Business at the busy Jomo Kenyatta Public Beach, Mombasa County came to a standstill as a dhow made entirely out of plastic waste sailed into the shallow waters.

Hundreds of people from all walks of life thronged the beach to witness the arrival of Flip Flopi, the dhow covered with around 30,000 re-purposed flip flops after it arrived from Lamu Island where it had sailed off on January 24, 2019.

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