The death toll from flood-related incidences has risen to 136 in Kenay as foods wipe towns off the map. According to the National El Nino Emergency and Disaster Response Command Centre, the number of households displaced stood Friday at 92,432, which comprises 462,160 people. He added that the Kenya Defence Forces also airdropped food items in Isiolo County. Floods have affected livestock and agriculture, with acreage of farmlands submerged and an outbreak of pneumonic cattle diseases raging. The impact of the El Nino weather phenomenon has also been destructive and deadly in Somalia and Ethiopia.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 02, 2023 21:37 UTC