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Village that lives with the dead cries for help

Residents of Kamugoi village in Embu East Sub-county who have been living in squalid conditions in a cemetery. Inset: A toilet in the village. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

Up to 600 poor families in Embu East County who have been living on a decommissioned cemetery for more than five decades now have appealed to the government to resettle them.

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