{"id":212713,"date":"2025-11-06T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mps-committee-calls-for-urgent-action-as-floods-landslides-claim-lives-across-kenya\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:51:51","slug":"kenya-mps-committee-calls-for-urgent-action-as-floods-landslides-claim-lives-across-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mps-committee-calls-for-urgent-action-as-floods-landslides-claim-lives-across-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: MPs Committee Calls for Urgent Action As Floods, Landslides Claim Lives Across Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nairobi \u2014 NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 5 &#8212; The Departmental Committee on Regional Development has raised alarm over the worsening floods and landslides devastating parts of the country, urging for immediate humanitarian intervention and long-term investment in disaster preparedness and climate resilience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Addressing journalists at Parliament Buildings on Wednesday, Committee Chairperson Peter Lochakapong (MP, Sigor) expressed deep concern over the ongoing tragedies that have claimed at least 34 lives,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511060018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 5 &#8212; The Departmental Committee on Regional Development has raised alarm over the worsening floods and landslides devastating parts of the country, urging for immediate humanitarian intervention and long-term investment in disaster preparedness and climate resilience. Addressing journalists at Parliament Buildings on Wednesday, Committee Chairperson Peter Lochakapong (MP, Sigor) expressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":212714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[6394,258,256,6137,8667,5857,6878,4688,430,31579,8485,7260,257,254,11318],"class_list":["post-212713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-claim","tag-committee","tag-floods","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-landslides","tag-lives","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}