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Siaya villages where widows have no right to own land

Jane Oonje, a widow from Nyapiedho village in West Sakwa, Bondo, shows her title deed of a land that has been grabbed by the kin of her late husband. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

When Florence Atieno lost her husband in 2011, she pinned her hopes on her in-laws to keep her family standing.

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