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Deadly mines where pregnant women labour in vain and in pain Magarini, Kenya

Nyevu Charo, mother to two deformed children, has lost two pregnancies to what she claims were the effects of hyper-saline water.   [PHOTO: COURTESY]

By DANN OKOTH

KENYA: There is a familiar tide that sweeps into the salt-mining fields of Magarini constituency in Kilifi County every day in — and it has dangerous undercurrents.

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