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Residents of Nairobi's Mathare slum try to salvage their belongings after flood waters marooned their houses. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

There is water everywhere, the heavens have opened up and, some say, the gods are angry. For others, God is angry.

Some add we have talked about climate change for so long that we thought it was a hoax. The rains have finally come with flood waters peeling off some truths.

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