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Villagers flee as ‘gods of the lake’ cross boundaries

Flooded home at Kanyagilo village in Nyando Kisumu County as a result of rise in water levels at Lake Victoria. [Collins Oduor/Standard]

Some time back in November 2015, a team of researchers warned that water levels in Lake Victoria were rising fast.

The report from a study conducted by the North Carolina State University’s department of Marine, Earth and Atmosphere Sciences went largely unnoticed, save for a story that ran in The Sunday Standard.

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