Gone with floods: Rising Lake Victoria upends livelihoods
Wednesday February 10 2021
A flooded village in Chuowe Beach in Homa Bay County on December 11, 2019. FILE PHOTO | NMG
By LEOPOLD OBI
Summary
Those who called the semi-permanent structures home would have loved to continue living there, but apocalyptic floods made their choice for them.
The floods which began in early 2020 displaced more than 200,000 people in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania- the three East African countries.
Experts now warn that the flood is unlikely to be a one-off occurrence.
Buildings that once stood defiantly along Chuowe Beach in Homabay on the shores of Lake Victoria now seem set to surrender to the unlikely fate of never being inhabited again after spending months strapped under water.