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Nakuru dam burst
May 4 , 2024
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- The old Kijabe dam was broken near a village in the Rift Valley region of southern Kenya.
- It is a hillside barrier formed naturally over decades after railway construction work by Kenya’s former British colonial rulers.
- Kenya, along with neighbouring Tanzania and Burundi, has recently been hit hard by floods.
- The ongoing heavy rainfall in Kenya has deposited debris, stones and soil.
- This caused the tunnel to become blocked and ultimately burst.
- Late last year, more than 300 people died in rains and floods in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
- As per the UN’s World Meteorological Organization, the latest El Nino is one of the five strongest ever recorded.
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