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Researchers call for Action after Kenya appeared among worst Ocean Polluters.

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By Charles Ogallo Kenya is listed among major polluters of the Ocean in Africa and said to be among developing countries in the world with poor marine environmental management policies. The new Ocean Conservancy report features Kenya as the second worst ocean polluter after Nigeria, with almost 90,000 items such as plastic bags, Leaking chemical drums, cast-off motor-oil bottles and paint cans and many other items dumped annually along Coastlines. The globally recognized report comes few days after a team of local researchers admitted that Kenyan coastal waters was unsafe both for marine wildlife and coastal residents, implicating poor management of the marine ecosystem as main cause of alarm. Published annually by the ocean environmental watch-dog, the report also listed Tanzania and Egypt as third and fourth ocean poluters respectively. Researchers from a Mombasa based Kenya Marine and Fisheries research Institutes also said uncontrolled mass discharge of both liquid and solid wast