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Gold mines render hundreds homeless

Aggrey Mulayi, a gold miner enters a shaft in Rosterman, Kakamega county. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

Elinah Lipeya, 67, is lucky to be alive. Sometime in November last year as she prepared to go to bed at around 9.41pm, she noticed water seeping into the house.

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