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Rains splash pain and tears on slum residents

Heavy rains floods roads and cause traffic jam along nyayo stadium.PHOTO DAVID GICHURU/STANDARD]

As Nairobi residents continue to reel from the effects of the devastating flash floods that hit the city recently, Mary Makove from Mabatini slum in Embakasi mourns.

Makove, 28, lost her four-year-old daughter to an electric shock triggered by exposed illegal cables at the family's doorstep.

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