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Tana residents face eviction as salt firm claim their 300-acre land

Women harvest salt at a salt mine in Magarini, Kilifi County. [File, Standard]

Over 5,000 residents of Tana Korole village in Tana River County face eviction threats from a salt mining firm, digging trenches on their farms to expand its mining operations.

The villagers said the firm has also redirected seawater to villages, posing environmental and health hazards to the villagers.

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