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Floods in Kenya, increasing casualties, displaced people and damage

Hope from the weather that the worst is over

29-04-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo

It is to be hoped that, when it comes to bad weather and subsequent disasters, the worst is over in Kenya. Although for thousands of people, the worst seems never to be over.
The wake of the rains and floods has so far brought with it almost one hundred dead and some twenty officially missing, but it is thought that the number could be much higher, including unreported missing persons and the many 'ghosts' of the Nairobi slums that have sunk into the mud.
Over the weekend, 13 bodies were found in flooded rivers in Machakos, Makueni and the capital, while government spokesman Isaac Mwaura said there are more than 24,000 displaced families, totalling about 131,000 people left homeless. Added to this are thousands of citizens who, despite being left without their homes, do not abandon their misfortune and rubble, for fear of finding nothing left and then having no room to rebuild even the most miserable of shacks.
This is surely the height of misery.


The government has formed an emergency team and is ready to allocate funds (there is talk of 4 billion shillings) to take immediate action, but as always, Kenyans fear that very little of this money will go to those in real need, to those who have lost everything and must rebuild their present. Above all, the institutions must get to work so that this does not happen again in the future.
While in the cities, the problem is also the amount of waste that ends up in watercourses and drainage canals, blocking them and thus causing flooding, in the countryside and less inhabited regions, the climate changes of recent years have not yet been metabolised even by residents who, for example, do not protect themselves in advance against flooding, even though they live near rivers, lakes and dams. President Ruto's appeals to move out of areas at risk go unheeded, again because of the usual problem: land is the most sacred and cherished thing there is, and people risk dying, not to leave it and risk never finding it again.
The National Meteorological Service has announced that the big rains will continue for most of May, although according to the experts in a minor tone. This is to be hoped for.

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