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Fears for Kenya’s urban food supply as floods drown rice

Under the scorching sun, farmer Dennis Onyango was replanting his rice fields yet again in Ahero, a town in southwest Kenya, after his entire crop of seedlings had been wiped out by floods - for the third time this year.

The 35-year-old father of five said the first flood came when heavy rains hit Kisumu County in early April.

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