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Death and rape at Marsabit gold mine spark fear among residents

Machine used by gold diggers at Dabel gold mining site. [Jacob Muasya, Standard]

Dabel village in Marsabit County would be just like any other in the patched lands of northern Kenya; thorny, dusty and shrubby.

The little known outpost borders Wajir County in the East and Ethiopia to the North.

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