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Yala turning into a ghost town

A picture of Yala town in Siaya County in a picture taken on July 18, 2020. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

The once vibrant Yala town is now in the doldrums after the closure of Odera Akang’o College campus that gave it a lifeline.

When the campus that was a constituent college of Moi University was shut in 2019, the livelihoods of more than 50,000 people was affected.

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