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Africa|Heavy Rains and Floods Sweep Cities Across East Africa
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/world/africa/kenya-flooding-rain-tanzania.html
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Torrential downpours person submerged homes and farms successful Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi, and much rainfall is expected.
April 25, 2024, 1:44 p.m. ET
At slightest 200 radical were killed and dozens much were injured crossed East Africa successful caller days, officials and assistance groups said, arsenic torrential rains, floods and landslides pummeled towns and cities successful a portion already grappling with the devastating effects of the clime alteration crisis.
The utmost rains unleashed a question of demolition crossed Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi, flooding homes, demolishing businesses and leaving galore radical stranded connected rooftops.
The downpours exposed yet again the atrocious roads and mediocre drainage systems successful immoderate of the region’s biggest cities, which residents person persistently complained about. They besides revealed however mediocre people, who unrecorded successful sprawling shantytowns without entree to due roads, h2o oregon power, carnivore the biggest brunt of destructive floods.
In Tanzania, astatine slightest 155 radical were killed and 236 others were injured by the relentless rainfall that has swept respective parts of the state successful caller days, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said connected Thursday.
Speaking during a league successful Parliament, Mr. Majaliwa said the rains had affected immoderate 200,000 radical and heavy damaged farms, bridges, roads, schools and places of worship. Some 10,000 homes successful Tanzania were besides damaged to varying degrees, helium said.
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