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Agency: Floods claim 280 lives in East Africa

The UN agency said the annual short rains which ordinarily last from October to December have been exceptionally heavy in Kenya.

At least 280 people have been killed and more than 2.8 million others affected by unusually heavy rainfall and flooding in eastern Africa, the United Nations (UN) humanitarian agency said on Thursday.

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