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The collapse of the Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region that is prone to flash floods, sent water spilling downstream, carrying with it mud, rocks and uprooted trees, a police official, Stephen Kirui, said.

The Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region that is prone to flash floods, collapsed and water spilled downstream, police official Stephen Kirui told The Associated Press.

Coffee plants have long been thought to have developed in Ethiopia, but varieties that the team collected around the Great Rift Valley, which stretches from Southeast Africa to Asia, displayed a clear geographic split.

The town of Kampi Ya Samaki was once a bustling fishing and tourism center on the shores of Lake Baringo, one of a chain of major lakes nestled in the Great Rift Valley of western Kenya.

Some believed the trend was tied to the complex geology and groundwater hydrology of the Great Rift Valley, a series of faults and ridges stretching 7000 kilometers from Lebanon across eastern Africa to Mozambique.