Nairobi, April 6 -- At the Nakuru North Cemetery in the heart of Nakuru City, a gravedigger is keen not to disturb the remains of those buried almost a decade ago.

He is preparing a grave to be re-used. But the cemetery, just like the one in Nakuru South, is brimming with graves, declared full over a decade ago.

But the burial crisis isn't unique to Nakuru: it's a predicament shared by Kenya's major cities - Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.

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As the population in Kenyan cities continues to rise, it puts more strain on the availability of burial space, with the existing graveyards already filled up.

If nothing happens, residents of cities will soon have no place to bury their lo...