Tadesse Kassa, a former TIRET Corporation board member, was also convicted.[8] A hospital in Kilembe, Uganda and a small town Somalia are washed away in flooding; an unspecified number of people are killed.[9] Hundreds protest when the government destroys 7,000 homes and a market in Kariobangi, Kenya.[10] 12 May – Sudan pushes Ethiopia to resume discussion related to the $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River.[11]