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>> Kenya: the results of the floods caused by El Niño amounts to 120 deaths
| Flooding in the Mathare slum after heavy rains on April 24 in Nairobi, Kenya. |
| Photo: AFP/VNA/CVN |
East Africa is experiencing an unusual level of precipitation this rainy season, intensified by the effect of the climatic phenomenon El Niño.
In Tanzania, at least 58 people have been killed in floods and accidents.
In Burundi, the authorities have reported 96,000 internally displaced people due to almost incessant rains for several months.
In Kenya, at least 32 people had died and more than 40,000 had been displaced as of April 18, according to the UN humanitarian agency (Ocha).
After a night of torrential rains, several neighborhoods in the capital Nairobi were awakened by flooding.
In the Mathare slum, residents were waist-deep in water, according to images released by the Kenyan Red Cross which was carrying out evacuation operations there.
Other images posted on social media showed people sheltering on the tin roofs of their homes.
| Residents of the Mathare slum cling to walls to cross a flooded school grounds after heavy rains in Nairobi, Kenya, April 24. |
| Photo: AFP/VNA/CVN |
The Athi River, the second longest in Kenya, has burst its banks and “roads and bridges are affected”which caused traffic jams on major roads, added the Red Cross.
The railway company Kenya Railways announced the suspension of the circulation of commuter trains, a “precautionary measure” socket “due to the persistent heavy rains which affected the tracks”.
Tuesday April 23, Kenyan police announced that they had rescued a five-year-old child using a helicopter, trapped for several days by rising waters in Machakos county, about 150 km east of the country. capital city.
Eastern Africa regularly suffers the devastation caused by recurring meteorological phenomena El NiñoSource of intense precipitation.
In December, more than 300 people died in various disasters caused by heavy rains in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
From October 1997 to January 1998, gigantic floods fueled by torrential rains caused by El Niño had caused more than 6,000 deaths in five countries in the region.
AFP/VNA/CVN
