The fungal variety is endemic across the so-called “mycetoma belt” — including Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and northern Kenya — with funding and research desperately lacking Joyce Lokonyi sits on an upturned bucket, fingers weaving palm fronds as the wind pulls her dress to expose the stump of her amputated foot, lost to a little-known disease ravaging Kenya’s poorest county. Mycetoma is a fungal or bacterial infection that enters the body through any open wound, often as tiny as a thorn prick. Starting as tiny bumps under the skin, it gradually leads to the erosion of tissue, muscles and bone. The