How Kenya is flooding in a drought | It's Complicated

For more than 10 years, Kenya’s great lakes have been flooding, displacing hundreds of thousands of people as rising water levels leave towns and villages almost completely submerged.
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Flooding is also affecting nature reserves and destroying important habitats for endangered species. Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores why the human and ecological disaster is happening – and why the Kenyan government is so slow to act

A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/kenya-quiet-slide-underwater-great-rift-valley-lakes-east-africa-flooding

‘We relied on the lake. Now it’s killing us’: climate crisis threatens future of Kenya’s El Molo people ► https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/01/we-relied-on-the-lake-now-its-killing-us-climate-crisis-threatens-future-of-kenyas-el-molo-people

‘Moving a giraffe is a delicate process’: rising waters threaten Kenya's wildlife ► https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/13/rising-waters-threaten-kenya-wildlife-aoe

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