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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Cillian Sherlock

‘No longer a blessing’ – How Rwanda is coping with increased rainfall

A school child seeks shelter as rain falls at a school in the Karongi District of Rwanda (Brian Lawless/PA) -

The rain that millions of Rwanda’s poorest residents rely upon to survive is increasingly responsible for new threats to their lives.

The country, known as the Land of a Thousand Hills, has been heavily reliant on predictable and manageable rainfall to produce food.

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