Two men have agreed to share a wife, after realising they'd been having an affair with the same woman for years. The Kenyan men have signed a written contract in which they promise never to fight over the woman, and agree that they will take it in turns to live with her.
The deal was made after the rival suitors realised they had both been seeing the same woman for more than four years, but neither thought they could live without her.
The woman - thought to be a widow and and the mother of twins - also said she could not choose between her two lovers, so they agreed to share.
Community police officer Adhalah Abdulrahman told the Kenyan Daily Nation: "I talked to both of them and they claim they love her equally and cannot live without her. I asked the woman to choose but she refused, saying 'I cannot lose either of them, I love them both',"
One of the husbands, Sylvester Mwendwa, said he had gone to the woman's parents to ask for permission to live with her and pay the bride price when he was ready.
The other husband, Elijah Kimani, is believed to have done the same.
Their contract includes rules about shifts in the house, respect for one another, and that if the woman gives birth they will both raise the child as their own.
For the sharing arrangement to be legal both men will have to prove that it has been part of their custom to practice polyandry - a woman having more than one husband.
Family lawyer Judy Thongori said that while polyandry is abnormal, it is not thought to be illegal in Kenya because the country's marriage laws do not forbid it.
She said: "The laws we have do not talk about it but for such a union to be recognised in Kenya, it has to be either under the statutory law or as customary marriage. The question we should ask now is whether these people come from communities that have been practising polyandry."
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