Kenyans at loggerheads over coal plant at world heritage site
By Daniel Wesangula LAMU, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Walid Amed Ali stands beside the only window in his tiny office, he looks out on an almost perfect world on the Kenyan island of Lamu where his family has lived for generations. "They want us to lose all of this." Lamu with its narrow, winding streets and stone buildings, is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa and a United Nations World Heritage Site, attracting pilgrims annually to celebrate Prophet
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