PREMIUM Inside Baringo's sinking villages Behind every flooded homestead is a family forced to leave land inherited over generations. Climate 19 min ago

It is a humanitarian one, driven by rising lake levels, shifting rivers and a climate that no longer behaves the way it used to — a crisis measured not in square kilometres, but in the number of families who no longer know where home is.

Photo credit: Florah Koech | Nation Media Group Scientists attribute the rising lake levels to a combination of climate variability, increased rainfall and geological processes tied to the Great Rift Valley itself.

PREMIUM Experts: Why Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes keep swelling Lake Baringo's water level has risen by an average of 15 metres around the lake in three months.