Kenyan military deployed as East Africa floods kill dozens
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Kenya’s military was deployed on Thursday to rescue victims of heavy rains that have killed dozens of people across East Africa over the past month. At least 45 people have died in the floods in Kenya since March, including 10 since Monday, the Kenya Red Cross said. Large parts of the capital […]
Death toll from Kenya’s El Nino floods jumps to 120
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Severe flooding caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon has killed 120 people in Kenya, while people in almost 90,000 households have been forced to leave their homes, the government said on Tuesday. The latest estimated death toll in Kenya has doubled as heavy seasonal rains following the worst drought in four decades […]
Death toll from flooding in Somalia climbs to nearly 100
Mogadishu, SomaliaReuters The number of people killed by floods from heavy rains in Somalia has climbed to 96, state news agency SONNA said on Saturday. “Somalia’s flood death toll climbs to 96,” SONNA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, adding the figure had been confirmed by Mahamuud Moallim, the head of the country’s […]
Churches aid families impacted by East African floods
Nairobi, Kenya Hundreds of churches and humanitarian agencies in the East African nation are aiding families affected by major floods that have claimed 71 lives, displaced thousands of people, and uprooted thousands of homes, destroyed crops and other properties. The World Meteorological Organization has said in a recent report that the ongoing El Niño rains that started in early October are […]
Eastern African bloc seeks summit to deploy regional force in Sudan
Addis AbabaReuters An eastern African bloc called on Monday for a regional summit to consider deploying troops into Sudan to protect civilians, after nearly three months of violence between the army and a paramilitary faction. Fighting that erupted on 15th April in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, has spread to other parts of the country and driven […]
Essay: Most east African refugees are hosted close to borders – it’s a deliberate war strategy
Researcher KARA ROSS CAMARENA, in an article first published on The Conversation, says locating refugee camps close to borders opens them to exploitation from armed groups…
East African regional leaders demand ceasefire in eastern Congo
Bujumbura, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters East African regional leaders on Saturday renewed their call for an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that pits the country’s military against a rebel group it has accused Rwanda of supporting. At a summit in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura, the leaders of […]
Crisis-hit Somalia, Ethiopia top aid group’s Watchlist for 2023
London, UKReuters Somalia and Ethiopia, both Horn of Africa nations ravaged by drought and conflict, will be the countries of highest concern in 2023, according to an annual Watchlist issued by the International Rescue Committee aid group on Wednesday. The report lists 20 countries, 11 of them in Africa, that it says are at greatest […]
Facing starvation: How churches in Kenya are working to alleviate suffering thanks to a severe drought
TONNY ONYULO reports on how churches and faith-based organisations are helping to provide the most basic of needs to people in East Africa left with nothing to eat…
Donors must act now to save East Africa from famine, IRC says
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Donors need to provide cash now to save lives and not wait for famine to be declared in parts of East Africa where tens of millions of people are going hungry, the head of the International Rescue Committee said on Tuesday. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are suffering their worst drought in 40 […]