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Phyllis Omido: The woman who won $12m fighting lead battery poisoners
Image copyright CJGEA After a decade of campaigning, Kenyan environmental activist Phyllis Omido won a court ruling that awarded $12m (£9.2m) to a community poisoned by lead pollution from a nearby factory, as the BBC’s Basillioh Mutahi reports. When, in 2009, Ms Omido explained to her employer that their business of battery recycling could “end …
