Residents watch as excavators and bulldozers bring down their homes in the Mathare area of Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, May. 8, 2024. The Kenyan government ordered the evacuation of people from flood-prone areas, resulting in the demolition of houses and the loss of at least one life in the melee caused by the forced evictions.
Otieno was the only one of her eight children attending school and he carried the family’s hopes for a better future. A single parent of four sons and four daughters, Makinda faces forceful eviction this week from the $15-a-month tin shack she calls home in Kenya’s populous Mathere slums. “My son's body is lying in the mortuary without preservation because I have not paid. I cannot even afford transportation to the morgue,” she said.
The caretaker of a five-story building that was brought down, Otondo recounted how engineers marked the building housing her shop and home for demolition, which prompted people to break into it and steal her entire stock. “The magnitude of the weather extremes we are facing, I don't think anyone would be prepared for the weather extremes we are seeing,” Environment Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya said in an interview with local broadcaster Citizen TV. “Some parts of this country have never seen floods before.”
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