Kenya, Oct. 21 -- A team from the African Development Bank Group, Kenya's National Treasury, and the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation has concluded a five-day mission, from 21 to 25 September 2026, to assess progress on the first phase of the Thwake Multipurpose Water Development Program.The program involves the construction of a dam at the confluence of the Athi and Thwake rivers, on the border of Makueni and Kitui counties, 180 kilometres south-east of Nairobi. When completed, the dam will supply water to about 1.3 million people in Kenya's rural Lower Eastern counties, generate about 20 MW of hydropower and support irrigation on up to 40,000 hectares of farmland.The mission was led by Nancy Ogal, the Bank Group's task manager...