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Children play with snow after a heavy hailstorm hit a deforested hillside in Gikingi Village in Nyahururu town, some 220km from Nairobi, Kenya. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna
Children play with snow after a heavy hailstorm hit a deforested hillside in Gikingi Village in Nyahururu town, some 220km from Nairobi, Kenya. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna
