“The animal grabbed the fisherman by his thigh when he tried to escape,” said Homa Bay BMU chairman Edward Oremo.

Residents of Usoma Beach on Wednesday feasted on a hippo that was killed by Kenya Wildlife Service officers.

Durban - An angry mob of about 200 people caused damage - estimated at millions of rand - to a car-modifying business in Peters Road, Sea Cow Lake, on Sunday.

“I fear my pupils might contract waterborne diseases if they continue drinking and eating food cooked with the dirty water fetched from the muddy pan,” he said.

Baringo Central MP Joshua Kandie said 70 per cent of the county is arid and semi-arid and many residents are suffering from lack of water.

However irrigation has radically changed the face of the county so much that even with high temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius on average this February, there are fields of green crops, which are almost ready for harvesting.

“On Wednesday night, the colony of elephants invaded my mangoes and banana farm and destroyed the fence and everything else,” resident William Chepkeitany told the Star today on Thursday.