Thousands of homes have been washed away or are marooned,while farmland has been submerged and tens of thousands of livestock drowned,aid agencies said. In neighbouring Somalia floods have killed at least 96 people and displaced 700,000,a disaster management official said. In Ethiopia,at least 44 people have been killed.
All 47 counties were affected,but four in the east were hit harder – Tana River,Garissa,Wajir and Mandera – are most severely affected,Interior Minister Raymond Omollo said.
“All major dams are being monitored but Kiambere has a metre remaining to overflow,” Omollo said in a statement,referring to the Kiambere Hydroelectric Power Station in Tana River.
“We call on those downstream to move to higher ground even as government enhances power generation to mitigate the challenge.”
In Garissa town,thousands of people have been displaced after their homes were swept away.
“All roads are destroyed. I don’t even know where people will go,” Garissa resident Joel Ngui said.