China-Backed Coal-Fired Power Plant Faces Rejection in Kenya

Swaleh Elbusaidy, a community environmental lawyer at Save Lamu, points into the distance to explain effects of the coal plant on the environment while standing at the proposed site for the coal plant on July 10, 2019. Dominic Kirui for The Epoch Times

KWASASI, Kenya—It’s midday in Kwasasi village, Lamu County, a few miles from the Indian Ocean coastline in Kenya, and Ali Abdala Haji is weeding his maize field.

If a planned coal-fired power plant is built near his small farm, he believes his entire maize crop will be gone in a few years, covered by dust from the coal plant.