{"id":226365,"date":"2026-03-08T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-death-toll-from-nairobi-floods-rises-to-23\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:38:08","slug":"kenya-death-toll-from-nairobi-floods-rises-to-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-death-toll-from-nairobi-floods-rises-to-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Death Toll From Nairobi Floods Rises to 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The death toll following heavy overnight rains that triggered severe flooding across Nairobi and surrounding areas, has risen to 23 fatalities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">National Police Service Spokesman Muchiri Nyagah says the most affected areas include Mukuru, Kibra, Mathare, Huruma, South B and C, Pipeline\/Embakasi, Roysambu, Kahawa West, Githurai, and parts of Westlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He said authorities are closely monitoring the situations on sections of Uhuru Highway, Mombasa Road, the Thika Superhighway, Jogoo Road,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603070100.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 The death toll following heavy overnight rains that triggered severe flooding across Nairobi and surrounding areas, has risen to 23 fatalities. National Police Service Spokesman Muchiri Nyagah says the most affected areas include Mukuru, Kibra, Mathare, Huruma, South B and C, Pipeline\/Embakasi, Roysambu, Kahawa West, Githurai, and parts of Westlands. He said authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":226366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680910:d7dfc70c5798f13e2a2dc05a60356c3c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6974,6878,4688,430,259,257,8688,254,11260],"class_list":["post-226365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-death","tag-floods","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-rises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toll"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680910:d7dfc70c5798f13e2a2dc05a60356c3c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226365","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=226365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}