Nairobi — The villagers living on the foothills of Mount Kenya have a belief: If they burn the forest, the rains will come.
"Generally, we believe that the sky is covered by a thick layer of ice and only a forest fire can rise high enough to melt this ice and give us rainfall," Njoroge Mungai, a resident from Kiamungo village, Kirinyaga County, which is located on the foothills of Mount Kenya, tells IPS.
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