We define ourselves by disaster by ignoring warnings

The cause of the floods is not a surprise at all. We received El Niño warnings a whole year ago. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) issued an advisory when I was in Nairobi in March last year.

Simon Kaheru

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By Simon Kaheru

Please let us observe a moment of silence for the East Africans we have lost to floods over the last

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We define ourselves by disaster by ignoring warnings

The cause of the floods is not a surprise at all. We received El Niño warnings a whole year ago. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) issued an advisory when I was in Nairobi in March last year.

Simon Kaheru

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