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Lake Victoria's suffocating lakefront

Residents go about their business at Dunga beach in Kisumu. [Harold Odhiambo, Standard]

Two men load sacks of charcoal on a truck a few meters away next to the mouth of the heavily polluted river Wigwa, along Kisumu's lakefront.

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