Cyclone Hidaya might be kind on Kenya but prepare for more rains

Nairobi's Mathare residents trying to salvage their belongings after a night of flooding on April 24, 2024. [Robert Tomno, Standard]

When it rains, it pours, as they say. In eastern Africa, it has been pouring. Deaths and devastation reported across the region are heartbreaking, to say the least.

But news of Cyclone Hidaya, which emerged from the Indian Ocean came as an unsettling reminder of the changing times that Africans are living in, as the third cyclone of its kind, comes calling.