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Oct
17
2020
By The African Mirror
Crippled by lake’s fluoride waters, Kenyan women struggle to survive

Crippled by lake’s fluoride waters, Kenyan women struggle to survive

HEALTH
DOMINIC KIRUI  FOR 50 years, Ester Yokoi has been drinking water from Kenya's Lake Baringo, and for 50 years it has been poisoning her. Yokoi is one of several thousand villagers to develop a bone-weakening disease due to the lake's dangerously high fluoride levels, officials said, leaving her unable to walk and too poor to afford medication, or even safe drinking water. "I still drink the same water from the lake... What do you do when you're thirsty?" said Yokoi, 50, who lost the use of her legs 30 years ago. Nowadays, the mother-of-six drags herself along the ground to…
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Sep
04
2020
By The African Mirror
Kenyans fear ‘ecological disaster’ if two swollen lakes merge

Kenyans fear ‘ecological disaster’ if two swollen lakes merge

ENVIRONMENT
JACKSON NJEHIA Lake Baringo, one of the most northern of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, is visible at the top of the image. With a surface area of 130 sq km and an elevation of around 970 m, the lake has an average depth of around 5 m and it is one of the two freshwater lakes in the Rift Valley.South of Lake Baringo lies Lake Bogoria – a saline, alkaline lake. The long and narrow lake has an area of around 30 sq km and is around 10 m deep. Lake Bogoria provides refuge for the lesser flamingo, with…
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