Scuffle after Chinese company donates beer to starving residents of Tiaty

A toast to charity: Chinese donors open cans of beer that accompanied their food donation to the people Tiaty, Baringo County. [Julius Chepkwon]

There was drama today at Katikit Mixed Boarding Primary School in Tiaty, Baringo County after hundreds of locals who had shown up to receive relief food realised beer was on the menu.

The residents had gathered each hoping to get a share of the relief food delivered to them by a Chinese Company, Ghuanshan International Mining Company Limited; Their banner read, "Relief food to Tiaty, committee to save life."