Learning from past mistakes: Nairobi maps out key chokeholds to as it prepares to tackle El Niño
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Nairobi has been conducting a heightened cleaning exercise which involves drainage clearing, waste collection and building better drainage systems to prepare itself for the anticipated El Niño rains.
This is after the Kenya Meteorological Department issued advisories in August on the impending torrential rains from October to December, warning of wetter-than-normal or above-average rainfall.
The county has now formulated a plan to better combat the weather extreme and not fall victim to mistakes of the past to protect up to 100,000 residents or 20,000 households at risk.
