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At least 170 dead, thousands displaced as floods sweep Kenya

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  • Kenya’s military is expediting efforts to evacuate hundreds of people stranded by severe floods affecting various parts of the country.
  • The Red Cross reports that the floods, ongoing since November, have claimed at least 170 lives and displaced over 600,000 people.
  • Scientists say that human-caused climate change has intensified the ongoing rains in Africa up to two times more than usual.

Kenya’s military hastened efforts Thursday to evacuate hundreds of people trapped by raging floods that have hit many parts of the East African country.

Floods have killed at least 170 and displaced more than 600,000 since the onset of heavy rains in November, according to the Red Cross, which is helping to coordinate the rescue efforts.

Tens of thousands of people in Northern Kenya have lost livestock, farmland and homes due to the floods described by aid groups as the worst in 100 years. An international team of scientists reported last week that human-caused climate change has made the ongoing rains in Eastern Africa up to two times more intense.

30 PEOPLE DEAD IN KENYA AND SOMALIA AS HEAVY RAINS AND FLASH FLOODS DISPLACE THOUSANDS

Kenya’s meteorological department has warned that heavy rains will continue into the new year. It is urging people living in lowlands and flood-prone areas to evacuate.

People wade through a section of a road destroyed by floods in Mandera County, Kenya, on Dec. 13, 2023. Kenya’s military has hastened efforts to evacuate hundreds of people trapped by raging floods. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

“While I was running away from the rains and the flood waters, I fell down and broke my hand. After the incident my family and I came here to the displacement camp,” Gabey Aliow Issak, 65, in the town of Mandera.

KENYA FLOODING, LANDSLIDES LEAVES MORE THAN 100 DEAD, OVER 1,800 HOMELESS

On Wednesday, British High Commissioner Neil Wigan visited remote Mandera County, where a severe drought a year ago wiped out the livelihoods of residents in many communities.

“Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing everyone in the world, but you see very acutely in places like northern Kenya, where the impact of the drought and livestock dying and now the flood on people’s livelihood has been absolutely enormous,” Wigan said. “We are committed to dealing with both the short-term consequences, what we can do for cash grants, foods, medicine and other vital supplies but how can we build systems nationally and internationally to deal with the effects of climate change.”

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