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At least 71 people have been confirmed dead and 110 people are in hospital following floods near the town of Mai Mahiu in Kenya’s north-western Nakuru county, Nakuru governor Susan Kihika ...
A fallen tree after the flood in Kenya. The capital Nairobi and surrounding areas were particularly affected. [2] The Nairobi River and the Athi River both burst their banks displacing 40,000 people. [4] At least 300 deaths, 188 injuries, 75 missing and 300,000 displaced people were reported.
2024 Mai Mahiu flash flood. On 29 April 2024, a blockage in a culvert beneath a railway embankment led to a catastrophic failure and inundation in Kenya, killing at least 50 people. [2] The event was initially described as a 'dam failure'. [3] The flood occurred following heavy rains in the previous month that killed over 110 people.
Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said Friday, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. The East African country ...
The death toll due to floods in Kenya has risen to 76, with 29 people injured and 19 still missing, a government spokesperson said as authorities ordered more evacuations of people from at-risk ...
The Kenyan government on Monday urged people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to higher ground as heavy rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc across East Africa. President William ...
Floods affected several regions of Kenya in late March, killing 12 people, injuring five and displacing 812 families. [18] In April, four people died and around 36,400 people were affected by flooding in the west and northeast regions of Kenya. [19] [20]
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 ...