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How climate change has fuelled a health crisis

Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change, and Forestry Deborah Barasa during the launch of the Tupande tree crowing initiative at One A care fund grounds in Kakamega on April 9, 2025. [Benjamin Sakwa/ Standard]

To the common man, climate change may mean just extreme weather, usually characterised by floods or drought.

Even images of people struggling to explain, in Kiswahili, how a storm messed them up, with visible losses and damages on their property, have ended up in social media as mere entertainment, reducing the weight of the appeal for permanent solutions.

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