Live Breaking News & Updates on Rising Lake Victoria

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. ....

Nairobi Area , Indian Ocean , Homa Bay , Alice Kiche , Willis Omulo , William Amuom , Elijah Ngongo , Lydia Olaka , Richard Muga , Aluora Makare , Lake Victoria Basin Commission , University Of Nairobi , Rising Lake Victoria , East African , Chuowe Beach , Lake Victoria , Victoria Basin Commission , Karachuonyo North , Elijah Ng Ong O , Kenya Power , Indian Ocean Dipole , நைரோபி பரப்பளவு , இந்தியன் கடல் , ஹோமா வளைகுடா , ரிச்சர்ட் முக , ஏரி விக்டோரியா பேசின் தரகு ,