El Nino returns as Kenya and Horn of Africa brace for wet year-end

A boda boda rider attempts to cross a flooded section of Isiolo town in April 2018. [File, Standard]

In Budalang'i, the dykes along the Nzoia River have a memory. After the 2019 floods pushed Lake Victoria to 13.4 metres, its highest level in decades, the dykes have held since, protecting schools, churches and market centres that had previously gone under.