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Once a beauty of nature, Yala river is now a flowing graveyard

Police view a woman’s corpse at the bank of River Yala. [Duncan Ocholla, Standard]

A group of four women dip their buckets into the water and collect the precious liquid from River Yala as two others patiently wait their turn to rinse their clothes.

Despite the rhythmic sounds of the river as it snakes its way towards Lake Victoria,...