Shock ,Rongai man killed by hyena

 

The body of a middle-aged man was found on Tuesday morning in Rongai, appearing badly dismembered

The Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) released a statement on Wednesday evening signed by the Corporate Communications Manager Ngugi Gecaga, indicating that the man could have been attacked by a hyena, and not lions as presumed by residents

KWS have said that they are aware of reports making rounds on social media that a lion attacked and mauled a man in Rongai area, and explained that he could have been attacked by a hyena.

KWS officials said that residents in Rongai filed a report with them on Tuesday morning June 28, 2016 about the incident, after which they visited the site.

They found that there was the body of a 42-year-old man that was badly dismembered at the place, but could not confirm that he was indeed attacked by lions, since the animals were not there.

A team from KWS, as well as police and community members were present when the body was collected by authorities and taken to City Mortuary.

KWS released a statement on Wednesday June 29, saying that a post-mortem would be carried out to indicate whether the suspected hyena attacked and killed the victim, or whether he was already dead before his body was mauled by the animal.

Police are investigating the matter.

An earlier report on  in local press  indicated that the victim, whose identity was not disclosed, was attacked at 9pm on Monday as he was on his way home at Kandisi area in Ongata Rongai.

Area residents had apparently complained of rogue lions that had been roaming the area and causing them to live under fear of attack.

They said the animals had strayed from the Nairobi National Park, and were seen in various places in the area at different times during the night.

Gruesome photos of a badly dismembered body of a man in gumboots accompanied the report, and captioned as those of the victim in question.

Incidents of lions being found loitering outside the park situated in the adjacent Langata area have been on the rise lately.

In February 2016, six lions escaped enclosure and wandered into neighbouring settlements and the Langata estate across the road from the park.

A man was injured by one of the lions and was compensated with KSh 2 million and had his treatment costs footed by the KWS.

Being so close to the central business district and a major tourist attraction for Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service blamed people encroaching on the reserved land as reasons why the animals were escaping from the enclosure.

Other than that, the ongoing construction of the Standard Gauge Railway through the Nairobi National Park is said to be the main cause for the wildlife migration from their habitats.

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Very hot drinks may cause cancer, but coffee does not, says WHO

Organisation’s cancer research agency says beverages consumed at more than 65C are probably linked to oesophageal cancer

The World Health Organisation has cleared coffee of causing cancer, but a detailed investigation has found that very hot drinks may be linked to cancer of the oesophagus, or gullet.

Coffee was classified as a possible cause of cancer in 1991, but the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of WHO, has now reconsidered the evidence. It carried out a detailed review of the many studies published on the subject and found that coffee drinkers have no reason to worry.

IARC also investigated the herbal drink mate, also known as chimarrão orcimarrón, which is widely consumed in South America, where oesophageal cancer is more common than in other parts of the world.

The experts found that mate was not a cause of cancer, but they believe the temperature at which it is drunk probably is – and that other very hot drinks could also be linked to oesophageal cancer.

Mate is drunk at temperatures of more than 65C (149F), often through a metal straw. The scientists also looked at drinks including tea consumed at high temperatures in central Asia, China and Japan.

“It is consumed very hot,” said IARC’s Dr Dana Loomis. “This led to interest in other hot drinks around the world. There seems to be an effect of temperature.

“There is limited evidence in human studies, and limited evidence in animal studies, for the carcinogenicity of very hot drinks,” said Loomis.

IARC produces what it calls monographs on the causes of cancer, which use classifications from group one, where the link is definite, as with smoking; to group four, where there is probably no link.

The new monograph classifies hot drinks as group 2A, meaning they are “probably carcinogenic to humans”. Coffee and mate served cold are in group three, which means there is insufficient evidence to believe they cause cancer. IARC’s conclusions are published in the Lancet Oncology journal.

Those who enjoy hot tea in Europe and the US probably do not need to worry, Loomis said. “It is important to recognise that hot drinks that were studied for the basis of this classification are perhaps a bit different from tea or coffee as consumed [in other parts of the world] – 65C is quite hot.”

In European countries, coffee and tea are usually drunk at below 60C, he said, and milk is often added, which cools it. Tea in Iran and mate in South America are often drunk at 70C. “Mate is not only prepared very hot, but drunk through a metal straw that delivers it directly into the throat,” he said.

Studies in animals have shown that very hot water can promote the growth of tumours. “It appears that there is thermal injury from exposure to hot liquids that is capable of leading to cancer of the oesophagus,” he said.

IARC’s classifications relate to the strength of the evidence for a causal association, rather than the frequency with which something causes cancer. This is why tobacco, which increases the risk of cancer 100-fold, is in the same group as UV rays from sunbeds, which increase the risk of skin cancer two-fold.

The scientists found an inverse relationship between drinking coffee and certain types of cancer. The risk of developing liver cancer dropped by 15% for each cup of coffee drunk, while in breast cancer and endometrial -or womb – cancer studies suggest there were fewer incidences among people who drank coffee than those who did not.

Other factors could be responsible, however, and IARC does not consider that drinking coffee protects people from cancer.

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UK woman gives birth after sex with Kiserian Maasai husband’s son

‘My Maasai dream is over’: Theatre volunteer, 26,who moved to Kenya to marry a tribal warrior returns to Britain to give birth to a baby by his 19-year-old SON (who sees her ‘more like a mum’)

• Rebekah O’Brien moved to Kiserian, Kenya to marry a dancer Rempesa in 2013
• After their relationship ended Rebekah began seeing his son Lawrence, 19 
• Last week she gave birth to Lawrence’s child, a boy called Kito
• The pair are no longer together but Rebekah has sent Lawrence £600Rebekah O’Brien moved to Kenya and married a Maasai warrior, but she has just had a baby with his son after they fell for each other. Pictured: Rebekah with her son Kito

A new mother has revealed how after she moved to Kenya to marry a Maasai warrior she went on to have a baby with his teenage son – who remains in Africa, while she is back in Britain.

Rebekah O’Brien, 26, fell for butcher Rempesa Ole Kirkoya, 40 when he and his Maasai warrior troupe came and performed in the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich in 2012.

Rebekah, a gym receptionist from Kent, was so entranced with his culture and the connection that she felt that she uprooted her life to move 7,000 miles to be with him – even though he was already married to his wife Joyce.

But three years on and her fate has been less than straightforward. She and Rempesa are no longer together and instead she is romantically involved with his eldest son, a teenager still at school who is unable to help her support their week-old son Kito.

Rebekah O’Brien, 26, fell for butcher Rempesa Ole Kirkoya, 40 when he and his Maasai warrior troupe came and performed in the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich in 2012.

Rebekah, a gym receptionist from Kent, was so entranced with his culture and the connection that she felt that she uprooted her life to move 7,000 miles to be with him – even though he was already married to his wife Joyce.

But three years on and her fate has been less than straightforward. She and Rempesa are no longer together and instead she is romantically involved with his eldest son, a teenager still at school who is unable to help her support their week-old son Kito.

Rebekah’s love affair with Kenya – and two of its citizens – began in October 2012 when she was on a filming course and volunteered as a steward at the Norwich theatre.

Rempesa and his Osiligi warrior troupe came to put on a performance of their songs and dances and she was so fascinated by them that when one of the women she met invited her to visit Kenya.

Then, as she waited for her friend by a shop, she ran into Rempesa, then 37, and even though he couldn’t speak a word of English and she knew no Swahili, they managed to converse with hand movements and facial expressions.

Rebekah recalled: ‘When my friend came out, she gave me a knowing look, and now, looking back, that was the moment I started falling for him.

She decided to go to Kenya for a nine week trip in January 2013. She flew out to stay in a tin hut in Kisamis Kiserian, an hour’s drive from Nairobi, where there was no running water or electricity.

It was there that Rebekah and Rempesa, the village butcher, started a relationship.

‘On that first trip I saw him a number of times, sometimes with his wife, and she would even translate for me so we could chat,’ she said.

After splitting with Rempesa Rebekah fell for his son Lawrence, 19, and she fell pregnant in august

‘I remember him saying “I love you” to me and at first I just saw it as friendly, but my feelings started to grow,’ she said.

‘As a Western woman in Kenya people were suspicious of me, but Rempesa was so kind, buying me food and drinks and always had time for me and made me feel welcome and special.’

Amazingly, when she first met him he already had a wife, Joyce, who welcomed her into the fold and gave their relationship her blessing.

As he spoke little English, Joyce helped translate for Rebekah so they could build their relationship and even played the Backstreet Boys hit As Long As You Love me so they could all sing along to make her feel at home.

Rebekah then came back to the UK in March 2013 and vowed to learn Swahili so she could return to Kenya, signing up for a course on Facebook.

Then she began chatting to Rempesa on Skype and he told her again that he loved her and missed her and it was then that she realised she wanted to be with him.

Although he was married with five children – a boy and four girls aged between five and 17 – he told her their relationship was platonic and his wife Joyce herself told Rebekah that she was happy for them to marry.

In March 2013 Rempesa returned to the UK to perform with his troupe, so they would talk on the phone up to four times a day and, on his last night here, their relationship became physical.

She said: ‘We shared a hotel room together and it was lovely. We talked about getting married and although he didn’t say his marriage was over, and I knew he still lived with his wife, I felt assured they were nothing more than friends.’

And it was Joyce, 42, who welcomed Rebekah at the airport when she went to visit again in December.

She recalled: ‘We drove back and she kept playing the Backstreet Boys in the car so we could sing along to make me feel at home. She said the song was all about love and that’s what we shared.

‘When I got to the house, Rempesa led me to his bedroom, and Joyce went and stayed with the children. It was strange, but I was just so happy to be with him and I realised then it wouldn’t be a case of him having two wives, although I was happy to live like that. I would be his main wife and they were just friends.”

Rebekah admits that she’d been unlucky in love in England and loved the different values held by Rempesa and his Kenyan friends, which was one of the reasons she has chosen to make a life for herself there.

She said: ‘My friends said I was mad to be running off with a Kenyan man, living in a tin hut with him and his first wife and five children.

‘But there is hardly a huge sea of great guys here in the UK. And I decided when I was there that I didn’t want to be like women here, working all the time

‘In Kenya, it’s like being a British wife in the 1940s. You cook, clean and look after the home and your husband and family and I don’t see anything wrong in that at all.

‘The whole community supports each other and everyone is so happy and friendly. They have a great life.’

In Rempesa’s culture, Rebekah became his wife when she spent a night in his home and they were set to have a wedding ceremony but had to abandon their plans after his first wife suddenly died.

But tragedy soon struck. In January 2014, as Rebekah settled into her new life, Joyce, died of an accidental overdose.

Rebekah said the other villagers blamed her tor the incident but despite threats she and Rempesa kept their relationship alive

She said: ‘It was a total shock but she was very troubled.’ She said that there had been animosity towards her from some of the people in the village who blamed Rebekah for getting together with Rempesa for Joyce’s death.

However, the pair still planned a proper ceremony where Rebekah would spend the night before the wedding with a village elder before being led to her dress. She hoped that with other traditional celebrations they would receive gifts from the villagers such as a chicken or a cow.

‘It’s not like a wedding in the UK where you spend a fortune on a big dress and have a list of expensive presents you’d like at John Lewis,’ she said.

In February 2015, she fell pregnant and returned to the UK to have her baby where it could be cared for by the NHS and have British citizenship.

 I suppose it didn’t help that I was basically his stepmum before we got together

However, speaking at the time about her future as a mother, Rebekah revealed that she had lost the support of her family and was living with a Christian couple in Norwich while she tried to raise the money to go back to Kenya to live.

Speaking about being a new mum, she said: ‘I know that in Kenya, looking after a baby would be totally different. As the people there are poor, they only buy one nappy at a time, and I know that babies can go through about six a day, so I think at first I’d be better in the UK.

‘Once the baby is older, I think they adapt very well to being mothers. You go to cafes and see mums with their babies strapped across them, walking round, and they just get on with their lives.

‘The food is much healthier and less processed, just lots of fruit, veg and meat, and the weather is much better. I always feel healthier there and the community is very much focused on children and family.’

But the future that she sketched out for herself and Rempesa wasn’t to be. In the final months of her pregnancy, she and Rempesa broke up and Rebekah faced tragedy alone.

She gave birth to her daughter Arya who died just six weeks later. Rebekah then had to break the agonising news to Rempesa over Skype.

Although heartbroken and grieving, Rebekah craved Kenyan village life again and wanted to be back with Arya’s family.

But once she returned she herself falling for the warrior’s 19-year-old son Lawrence who is still at school making up for a few missed years through truancy.

He confessed his feelings for her and their relationship became physical.

Rebekah then fell pregnant with her son Kito last August, however it seems that the pressure of the pregnancy turned the relationship sour and Rebekah returned to the UK to have their son who was born last week.

She is hoping to see Lawrence come to the UK to visit his child and has already sent him £600 despite the fact he is unable to pay child support because he is still in school.

Rebekah told the Mirror: ‘I want Lawrence to be in his life, but I fear he sees me more as his mother than his girlfriend.

‘I suppose it didn’t help that I was basically his stepmum before we got together.’

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