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Kenya issues floods alert amid heavy rains

Residents struggle with floods following a downpour at Bamburi in Mombasa County on November 17, 2023. [File, Standard]

The Kenyan government has issued a flood alert following heavy rains affecting several parts of the country.

Disaster response teams have begun evacuating more than 240 households impacted by the ongoing floods nationwide, the Ministry of Interior and National Administration said in a statement issued on Friday evening in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

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