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Picking up the pieces: Villagers struggle to resettle as lake recedes

Residents evacuating from a flooded village in Kakola Ombaka, Nyando, April 2020. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

It’s 5pm on a Thursday and Dorothy Akinyi is preparing to light a solar-powered lamp to keep off hippos from invading her home on the shores of Lake Victoria.

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