Kenya's president set fire Saturday to 105 tons of elephant ivory and
more than 1 ton of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile ever
destroyed, in a dramatic statement by this East African country against
the trade in ivory and products from endangered species.
Uhuru Kenyatta put a flame to the biggest of 11 pyres of ivory tusks and one of rhino horn in a chilly afternoon. Overnight torrential rains had threated to ruin the event but stopped midday leaving a mud field around the piles inside Nairobi National Park.