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  2. 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 ...

  3. Dozens killed in Kenya as weeks of heavy rain devastate region

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    The deadly rains across the Horn of Africa at the end of last year, which killed at least 300 people, were about twice as intense as they would have been without climate change, according to a ...

  4. Kenya flood toll rises to 181 as homes and roads are destroyed

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    NAIROBI (Reuters) -Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government and Red Cross said on Wednesday, as ...

  5. Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya ( Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya ), is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, [12] Kenya is the 28th most populous country in the world [7] and 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest and second largest city ...

  6. White people in Kenya - Wikipedia

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    In the 1979 general election, Philip Leakey became the first White member of the Kenyan Parliament since independence. [10] According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), In 2019 there were 69,621 Europeans in Kenya, of which 42,868 were Kenyan citizens. [1] The proportion that are Kenyan citizens has likely increased due to the ...

  7. Kitum Cave - Wikipedia

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    Kitum Cave is a non-solutional cave developed in pyroclastic (volcanic) rocks (not, as some have presumed, a lava tube ). It extends about 200 metres (700 ft) into the side of Mount Elgon near the Kenyan border with Uganda. The walls are rich in salt, and animals such as elephants have gone deep into the cave for centuries in search of salt.

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

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    May 2, 2024 at 5:38 PM. People in areas expected to flood have been ordered to evacuate by Friday evening [Reuters] The Kenyan government has ordered people living near 178 dams and reservoirs to ...

  9. Shakahola Forest incident - Wikipedia

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    The Shakahola Forest incident refers to a religious cult in the Shakahola forest led by Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of Good News International Ministries.The incident gained attention in the early weeks of April 2023 when a man contacted the police after his wife and daughter left Nairobi, Kenya, to join Paul Nthenge Mackenzie's remote Good News International Ministries in Kilifi County and did not ...