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  2. Kenya floods: Nairobi homes demolished as Cyclone Hidaya ...

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    May 4, 2024 at 5:54 AM. [Peter Njoroge/BBC] Twisted scraps of metal, large splinters of wood and misplaced mattresses are all that remains of what were once people's homes in Mukuru Wa Reuben slum ...

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

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    Basillioh Rukanga - BBC News, Nairobi. April 29, 2024 at 11:53 PM [Getty Images] ... Nevertheless, the city developed into an attractive city with good weather, a lot of greenery and a national park.

  4. Kenya: Floods cause widespread devastation in Nairobi - AOL

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    April 25, 2024 at 12:02 AM. The UN says more than 40,000 have been forced from their homes [EPA] Roads have turned into rivers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, as a top official said flooding had ...

  5. 2024 Kenya–Tanzania floods - Wikipedia

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    The Nairobi River and the Athi River both burst their banks displacing 40,000 people. At least 257 deaths, 188 injuries, 70 missing and 293,661 displaced people were reported. [5] [6] [1] [7] [8] The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid also reported at least 960 livestock and 24 thousand acres of farmland were flooded.

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    BBC News is the largest broadcast news gathering operation in the world, ... such as BBC News Online, Sport, Weather, ... The BBC's East Africa bureau in Nairobi ...

  7. Nairobi - Wikipedia

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    Nairobi ( / naɪˈroʊbi / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census.

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

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    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 (37 miles) from the capital, Nairobi ...

  9. 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 ...