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Budalang'i residents on edge again as River Nzoia bursts its banks

Doreen Auma at Igigo Primary School where she has been camping after floods marooned her home and farm. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

For the past 10 days, Doreen Auma has been stuck at Igigo Primary School in Bunyala North with her three children aged under 10 years.

Her occasional smile as she speaks hides the pain of living in a temporary abode where her children are exposed to a lack of privacy, diseases and now the sad reality of being rendered homeless when schools reopen next week.

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