Grandmother Millicent Agata’s small farm has disappeared entirely under the floodwaters of a swollen Lake Victoria, forcing her family to join tens of thousands of other Kenyans seeking shelter from the worst floods in three generations.
Agata, from Khadundu village in western Kenya’s Busia county, has been living in a temporary camp for displaced families for at least three weeks.
Floods and landslides have killed at least 194 people in the country and displaced 100,000, the government said earlier this month.
Lake Victoria, on Kenya’s southern border, has washed over farmland and houses.
“The floods, the drought, the wildfires that we see are a result of the climate crisis,” said Amos Wemanya, a campaigner for Greenpeace Africa.
