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Elephants enjoy nightly maize feasts as KWS looks on. The govt compensates death and injury caused by wild animals, but not loss of crops

, JOHN MBARIA

IT IS LATE AT NIGHT IN Kiandege, four kilometres from Nyahururu town in Kenya's Central Province. Suddenly, women can be heard screaming. Men rush out of their houses armed with various weapons and congregate at a junction about a kilometre from the commotion. I join the men who are on a mission to drive away a herd of elephants that have been terrorising local residents.



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