This week’s episode takes you to Kilifi, Kenya – home to Watamu and Malindi’s sandy beaches. The only permanent river – River Sabaki – emanating from Kenya’s Aberdare Ranges west of Central Kenya floods each time it heavily rains upstream. Now, the 2018 Kilifi County Drought contingency plan notes that the drought return period has reduced to two to three years from every five to seven years in the last decade. Between 2016 to 2020, Kilifi County experienced a devastating drought that leads to massive pasture loss and cattle deaths, with nearly half a million people affected. With the county alternating between droughts and flash floods, what impacts does this have on communities? Listen to their voices.
Kilifi: where drought and flood devastates at the same time
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AFRICA CLIMATE CONVERSATIONS
Telling the Climate and Environment Story from an African Perspective
At the Africa Climate Conversation (ACC), we believe Africa cannot develop while leaving its media behind. At the same time, the continent must tell its own stories and shape its own narratives for itself and future generations.
Recent TWEETS
You had better
1) use the original river sizes If you need it to be sustainable.
2) ensure no one grabs those lands after. 3) ensure to continue even after the rains.
4) remember, over time water will push people back and re-occupy. Nature has no shortcuts whatsoever.
🛰️ Friday’s 3rd May, 2024 satellite imagery, from late afternoon to evening, reveals evolving weather patterns, leading to widespread rainfall in regions marked blue, yellow, and reddish-brown.
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