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Manguo wetland chocking under aborted foetuses and deadly hippos

A section of  Manguo swamp. [Phillip Orwa, Standard]

Mary Wachuka carefully plucks stinging nettle plants sprouting along drainage leading to the nearby Manguo swamp.

As she engages two other women who join her in harvesting the wild edible plant that is used as vegetable, murky effluent discharges from the surrounding settlement, flows freely before disappearing into the long reeds in the swamp.

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