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  2. Kenya floods: What a deluge reveals about Nairobi's ... - AOL

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    Basillioh Rukanga - BBC News, Nairobi. April 29, 2024 at 11:41 PM [Getty Images] ... Nevertheless, the city developed into an attractive city with good weather, a lot of greenery and a national park.

  3. Kenya orders flood evacuations as it warns dams could spill

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    It gave residents living near them - as well as those within a 30m (98ft) wetland corridor of the Nairobi River - 24 hours from 18:30 local time on Thursday to leave or be forcibly evacuated.

  4. Kenya flooding: Around 50 killed in villages near Mai Mahiu town

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    April 29, 2024 at 5:01 PM. [Reuters] About 50 people have died in Kenya in a deluge following heavy rains and flooding, a Red Cross official has said. People in villages near Mai Mahiu, about 60km ...

  5. Jack Scott (meteorologist) - Wikipedia

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    Broadcasting. Jack Scott made his television debut in May 1969 as the BBC's twentieth weather forecaster; he stayed with them until his retirement in 1983. As Scott was employed by the Civil Service rather than the BBC, when he left the BBC and the Met Office in 1983 aged 60, he was able to draw a Civil Service pension. [1]

  6. Westgate shopping mall attack - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [4] Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that started during the siege. [5] The attack resulted in 71 total deaths, [6] including 62 civilians ...

  7. Focus on Africa (TV programme) - Wikipedia

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    Focus on Africa is a BBC news programme broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel, and on local partner channels of the BBC in African countries. [1] The programme was presented by Komla Dumor each weekday from its inception until his sudden death, aged 41, in January 2014. [2] The programme includes news, sport and business ...

  8. Kenya floods: Survivors seek loved ones as evacuation ordered

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    May 1, 2024 at 6:34 AM. Nancy Wanjiku sits on what is left of her parents' home [BBC] Kenyans living in areas at risk of flooding or landslides will be asked to evacuate on Wednesday, the country ...

  9. BBC Weather - Wikipedia

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    The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...