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/202…

‘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-de…

‘Moving a giraffe is a delicate process’: rising waters threaten Kenya’s wildlife ► https://www.theguardian.com/environme…

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