Wealth brings mixed fortunes for Masai

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Jeremiah Saikong became the most popular man in any bar he walked into. Samuel Kariangei hanged himself. Kadurie Eletiko set up a taxi business and paid her father a dowry of 40 000 Kenyan shillings so she could marry the man of her choice.

Dol Dol in northern Kenya is a rugged, arid place where money was once as scarce as the water that seeps up from the boreholes in the dry season.

The area, however, has been transformed: first by the allegations over the conduct of British soldiers who trained here, and then by the huge sums of cash that have been paid out to communities which sought compensation.

Some have profited from the pace of change, others have been destroyed.

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