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Use of solar lamps to boost fish catch stirs regional row

WHO estimates that breathing kerosene fumes is the equivalent to smoking two packets of cigarettes a day. [File, Standard]

 

For many years, under the cover of darkness, thousands of fishermen set sail from various beaches on Lake Victoria, their kerosene lamps illuminating the choppy waters.

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