Publication in GEO France | Khadija M. Farah

Photographer Khadija M Farah's ongoing project on Kenya's Rift Valley and climate refugees is featured in GEO France for their special edition
In some parts of the world, climate change brings drought. In Kenya’s Rift Valley, it has brought torrential, out-of-season rains over the past decade, which, combined with deforestation, have resulted in rising waters in all of the valley’s eight lakes. Some have nearly doubled in size, drowning pastureland, farms, homes, schools, churches, clinics and businesses in a kind of slow motion tsunami. As a result, thousands in the Rift Valley lakes region have been forced from their homes. They are part of a new, global movement of refugees fleeing not conflict but climate change.