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Residents fight upscale evictions in Kenya conservation push

Residents fight upscale evictions in Kenya conservation push

DOMINIC KIRUI ON a sunny Saturday morning, Waswa Wekesa stood outside his family's four-bedroom home in a middle-class Nairobi suburb and tried to understand how the government could raze it to the ground. "I bought this piece (of land) in 2002, immediately after getting a job," the 48-year-old management consultant lamented as he recalled how hard he had worked to build the house. "I was only 30. I didn't take out a bank loan but used all my salary through the years to purchase the land and to gradually build the house," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Wekesa's house…
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