Nairobi: The city in water

Motorists make their way through the flooded highway as construction is ongoing on the Nairobi Expressway along Uhuru Highway [Courtesy]

Whenever Ms Hellen Njeri’s customers turn to leave her shop in Nairobi, she has to ask them to be careful.

Though she wishes she did not have to, the fear of leaving them to run into vegetables strewn across the verandah by mama mboga or stepping into floodwaters is real.