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2020 East Africa floods
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The 2020 East Africa floods were a natural disaster in Rwanda, Kenya, Somalia, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti and Tanzania, affecting at least 700,000 people. They began when excessive rains began falling in March, leading to massive flooding and landslides. They caused more than 430 deaths, notably in Kenya and Rwanda.
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Friday, it really rained a lot, and there were lots of floods, but it was severe from Sunday coming up to Monday morning. The floods were so severe that they reached a height of about five feet.
susan Ubbaga
Humanitarian needs have really emerged in this area. And this is very significant around shelter, where those 11,275 families … can't use their houses or they have lost their homes.
Venant Ndigila, head of operations at the Kenyan humanitarian agency.
External links
Category:2020s floods
Category:Disasters in Africa