Solai Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/solai/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 10 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Solai Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/solai/ 32 32 Kenya dam burst death toll rises to 47 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/kenya-dam-burst-death-toll-rises-to-47/ Thu, 10 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/kenya-dam-burst-death-toll-rises-to-47/ The death toll following a dam  bursting in northwestern Kenya has reached 47 with more bodies expected to be recovered from the mud. The Red Cross has appealed from $5-million to help those affected by the disaster. The earthen dam is located on the commercial flower farm of Manuskel Patel who was not there when […]

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]]> The death toll following a dam  bursting in northwestern Kenya has reached 47 with more bodies expected to be recovered from the mud.

The Red Cross has appealed from $5-million to help those affected by the disaster.

The earthen dam is located on the commercial flower farm of Manuskel Patel who was not there when it burst.

It’s used to irrigate the flowers exported daily to the Netherlands and Germany and for fish farming.

It burst after heavy rains in the region breaking a prolonged drought.

Water from the dam in Solai, near the Rift Valley city of Nakuru,

wiped out two villages and swept away power lines.

Most people were asleep in their informal homes surrounding the dam when the tragedy occurred and their houses were swept away. 

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