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Fencing of Mt Kenya Forest faces hurdle over boundary

Member of the Meru Council of Elders popularly known as Njuri Ncheke. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

By WAINAINA NDUNGU

Meru, Kenya: A community in Tharaka Nithi County is threatening to disrupt the construction of the Mt Kenya Forest fence over a 12-kilometre strip of forest land they claim was originally their farmland.

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