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Why South Africa is baking in dry spell as the East drowns in floods

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Flooded driveway in Runda estate, Nairobi. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

When it shone, it killed. Now as it rains, it is still killing us. As Kenya and the larger eastern Africa grapple with flooding, the contrasting, yet deadly effects of the emerging weather patterns cannot go unnoticed.

It is like Mother Nature has invented a climatic see-saw, as she exerts revenge on humanity, while smiling gleefully at the lethal outcomes of her wrath.

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