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Plight of Ogiek families evicted from Eastern Mau forest

Some of the houses demolished by Kenya Forest (KFS) Officers at Kapsinendet area in Marioshoni within the Mau Forest Complex. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Jane Koech, 67, is in a trance as she stares at a pile of timber that once used to be her house.

Besides the wood are her belongings - clothes, utensils and shoes all stashed inside a sack. On another pile lies the iron sheets that were once her roof, doors and windows.

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