Kenya’s president saves fig tree from Chinese-funded highway
KENYA’S President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way for a Chinese-funded highway in the capital Nairobi. The presidential decree described the tree, the height of a four-storey building, as a "beacon of Kenya's cultural and ecological heritage." The fig tree is considered sacred among Kenya's most populous ethnic group, the Kikuyu. Motorcycle riders sit in the shade provided by the iconic, century-old fig tree during a protest to save it from being cut down to pave way for a Chinese-funded highway, in Westlands district of Nairobi,…