A cemetery believed to be over 700 years old in Lamu Old Town is at risk of being grabbed by private developers.
The 10-acre Mkomani cemetery in Wiyoni was initially a graveyard for the family of Maalim Ahmed Bin Ali, well known as Ramadan, who later gifted it to the Lamu Muslim community to bury their dead.
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