Kenya: Rains Reduce Kajiado Wards Into an Island of Misery

Residents of three wards in Kajiado County regard the rainy seasons with a heavy dose of trepidation. For, while heavy clouds are generally seen as a blessing, to residents of this part of the country they are a harbinger of pain, death and destruction.

Whenever it rains, the residents of the three wards, which are dotted with traditional maasai manyattas and iron-sheet-roofed houses, are completely cut off from the rest of the country.

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