Plan to prevent further loss of lives to El Nino

Residents struggle with floods following a downpour at Bamburi in Mombasa County on November 17, 2023. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Few Kenyans were prepared for the El Nino rains. What with the mixed signals from reliable sources, some denying that there would be heavy rains, and others apologising for the wrong forecast! And so, like the days of Noah, when signs of heavy rains dwindled, life continued.

No amount of preparedness would therefore have forestalled the suffering of the people of North-Eastern Kenya. Take Wajir County, for instance. It suffered a prolonged drought prior to the floods, but when it rained, it poured.