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May 4, 2024 at 2:54 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 ...
April 29, 2024 at 11:53 PM. [Getty Images] Everything feels sodden in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and beyond. It seems as if the rain has been falling without respite for six weeks, and the impact ...
Tanzania. Rufiji River and Satellite imagery of flooding along its deltaic shores. 29 April 2024 （top）. 5 May 2023 （bottom）. Floods in northern Tanzania killed 161 people, injured 250 others, damaged over 10,000 houses and affected 210,000 people in 51,000 households.
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 ...
The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by ...
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 ...
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.
Some 210 people have died in Kenya since March, with a further 90 missing, according to the latest official estimates. A further 155 people have died in Tanzania, and 29 in Burundi.