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Deliver urban poor from rising climate calamities

Nairobi River flowing through Mathare slums on May 11, 2024. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The writing has been on the wall in many African cities. The need for a rethink of urban planning and management of cities to avoid loss of lives in climate disasters.

A few days of rains in Kenya in April and May exposed the dire housing situation in Nairobi, with lives lost in the informal settlements, especially those on riparian land. Many were swept away.

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