Nakuru Dam | 18 May 2024
Kenya has recently reported that Nakuru Dam has experienced a catastrophic failure due to heavy blockage in an underpass tunnel diverting water to the Tongi river.
- The blockage resulted from severe rainfall and the accumulation of debris, stones, and soil.
- The heavy rains and flash floods are also wreaking havoc in neighbouring countries like Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
- Kenya is located in East Africa. Its terrain rises from a low coastal plain on the Indian Ocean to mountains and plateaus at its centre.
- It is renowned for its wildlife habitats, including the Masai Mara, where annual migrations of wildebeest and zebras occur.
- The bones of one of the earliest human ancestors ever found were discovered in Kenya's Turkana Basin.
- It was a Homo erectus and is famously known as "Turkana Boy."
- UN-Habitat maintains its headquarters at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya.