Kenya deploys military to evacuate people in flood zones | DW News

Kenya deploys military to evacuate people in flood zones | DW News

over to Africa where Kenyan President
William Ruto has ordered the military to
evacuate everyone living in flood prone
areas that’s after the death toll from
Monsoon ra rains Rose to 171 people a
combination of factors including climate
change is being blamed for the floods
which have driven nearly 200,000 people
from their homes our correspondent Felix
MinGa has met some of those forced to
leave shattered
walls Waters raging efforts to find the
remaining bodies are still
ongoing at the shelter a cloud of
sadness on the victim’s faces many are
trying to come to terms with the tragedy
that has hit their homes Julie’s family
is in mourning they all fought for their
lives and six survived but their
three-year-old toddler was carried away
by the
floods they searched for him everywhere
but couldn’t find him if I don’t find my
baby while he’s still alive I don’t know
if I’ll ever forgive myself
I’m just praying that God grants me more
days to stay with my baby because when I
remember the struggles we’ve had and the
Damage that has taken place in the
floods I’m wondering whether God saved
his life or what happened to
him Julie is thankful that her family
found shelter to stay in for the night
away from the place where their anguish
began she and her husband have fed
memories of their three-year-old son
Isaac he marked his birthday on the
evening before he was carried up by the
floods he was celebrating his third
birthday on Sunday evening at 10:00 and
he ate the whole birthday cake alone and
he was going to
sleep I asked him whether he wanted some
tea and he said he just wanted to sleep
so I told him happy
birthday I hugged and kissed him and he
went to bed I didn’t know that anything
was happening or that the waters were
coming towards us
Julie is not alone Kyan lost his
business to the floods his Machinery
made useless his car wash bay covered in
mud and
wrecked a lot of things have been
destroyed in my business I was storing
some items for drivers that all got
carried away the fluts broke in through
one side of the building and came out
the other carrying away everything that
I had in there one of my employees
almost got swept away but the security
guard was able to save him from being
taken by the floods
the search and retrieval efforts are
still going on nobody knows how much
time it will take to clear the debris
family members are hoping they can get
to locate their loved ones and have a
chance to bury them Kenya’s president
William Bruto visited the areas
devastated by the floods he promised the
government would rebuild homes resettle
the homeless and get their children back
into school but he came with a warning
to people living in areas vulnerable to
flooding the mapping that has been done
on all fragile areas that are prone to
landslides and uh and
flooding we are asking every Kenyan in
such areas to leave because the focust
is that rain is going to continue and
the likelihood of flooding and people
losing lives is real and therefore we
must take preemptive action the
President also asked that people remain
hopeful even in the middle of the crisis
one such person is Julie who clings to
the thought of finding her missing baby
I’m hoping that I can get to see him
while he’s still
alive the victims can only hope that
this cloud of grief and loss will pass
that their lives can go back to normal
and that tragedy will stay away from
them

Kenyan President William Ruto has ordered the military to evacuate everyone living in flood-prone areas after the death toll from monsoon-rains rose to over 170. A combination of factors including climate change is being blamed for the floods, which have driven nearly 200,000 people from their homes.

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