East coast African states ail from too much, too little rain
Young boys pull containers of water as they return to their huts from a well in the village of Ntabasi amid a drought in Samburu East, Kenya, Oct, 14, 2022. Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which has already caused 21 deaths and displaced thousands of others in Madagascar and Mozambique, is set to make landfall in Mozambique again, Friday, March 10, 2023. Meteorologists told The Associated Press the uneven and devastating water distribution across Africa’s eastern states is caused by natural weather systems and exacerbated by human-made climate change with cyclones sucking up water that would otherwi…
By WANJOHI KABUKURU
Associated Press
MOMBASA, Kenya — Surrounded by miles of dried land and what remains of his famished livestock, Daniel Lepaine is a worried man. Dozens of his goats in Ngong, a town in southern Kenya, have died after three years of harrowing drought in the east and Horn of Africa...
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