{"id":226816,"date":"2026-03-14T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-flood-disaster-62-dead-12000-homes-damaged-or-destroyed\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:53:17","slug":"kenya-flood-disaster-62-dead-12000-homes-damaged-or-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-flood-disaster-62-dead-12000-homes-damaged-or-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Flood Disaster &#8211; 62 Dead, 12,000 Homes Damaged or Destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>At least 62 people have died across the country following ongoing flooding triggered by heavy rains, according to the Ministry of Interior and National Administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">In an update released Friday, the ministry said the fatalities include 46 men, eight women and eight children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi county has recorded the highest number of deaths at 33, accounting for more than half of the total casualties reported so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The Eastern Region follows with 17 deaths, while the Rift Valley Region has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130578.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 At least 62 people have died across the country following ongoing flooding triggered by heavy rains, according to the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. In an update released Friday, the ministry said the fatalities include 46 men, eight women and eight children. Nairobi county has recorded the highest number of deaths at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":226817,"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\/00680913:b50f858a21ec56a3509720293823fa09:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,14666,8096,13898,8985,8785,11282,4688,430,257,254],"class_list":["post-226816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-damaged","tag-dead","tag-destroyed","tag-disaster","tag-flood","tag-homes","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680913:b50f858a21ec56a3509720293823fa09:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226816","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=226816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}