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Inside the never-ending conflict between salt firms and residents

Magarini MP inspects contaminated well. Thirty fresh water wells in the village near Indian Ocean have been abandoned due to contamination by seepage from nearby salt manufacturing activity. [Photo by Joackim Bwana/Standard]

One early morning, armed police stormed Msumarini village in Adu Ward to enforce a state decree on eviction of residents.

The government had allocated the land to a private investor in salt manufacturing.

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