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The 2018 East Africa Floods were a natural disaster in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Djibouti, and Burundi affecting millions of people. They began when excessive rains began falling in March 2018 following a year of severe drought, leading to massive flooding, landslides, and the failure and overflow of several dams.
Cause. 2018 East Africa floods. Deaths. 48. The Patel Milmet Dam was a privately owned embankment dam located near the township of Solai, Nakuru County, in Kenya 's Rift Valley. The dam burst amid heavy rains on 9 May 2018, killing at least 48 people. [1] [2] [3]
January 2018 Western United States floods: March 500 Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Djibouti, Burundi: 2018 East Africa floods: May 19 – 26 22 Sri Lanka: 2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods: June 23 – 25 23 Vietnam: June 2018 Vietnam floods: June 28 – July 9 225 Japan: 2018 Japan floods: July 23 40 Laos: 2018 Laos dam ...
The torrential rains and deadly floods that have hit Kenya since March have been some of the most catastrophic in the country in recent years. In the most tragic single event, at least 48 people ...
May 5, 2024 at 6:13 AM. NAIROBI (Reuters) - The number of people killed by flooding and other impacts of the heavy rains battering Kenya has risen to 228, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The ...
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 ...
Food insecurity caused be droughts from 2014 to 2022 affected approximately 3.4 million people while in 2018, about 500,000 people lost access to water. With a population of 48.5 million people, Kenya is the largest economy in East and Central Africa, and serves as a diplomatic, communications, financial and trade hub within the region.
At least 44 people were killed when the reservoir, used to store water for the farming of roses, burst its banks on Wednesday night after heavy rains.