{"id":230675,"date":"2026-04-19T02:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-unesco-completes-flood-resilience-project-in-tana-river-basin\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:14:45","slug":"kenya-unesco-completes-flood-resilience-project-in-tana-river-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-unesco-completes-flood-resilience-project-in-tana-river-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Unesco Completes Flood Resilience Project in Tana River Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>UNESCO has completed a one-year project aimed at strengthening flood resilience in Kenya&#8217;s Tana River Basin, a region frequently hit by devastating floods.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Dubbed <em>Enhancing Flood Resilience in Kenya<\/em>, the initiative was launched in 2025 following the deadly floods of May 2024 that exposed major gaps in preparedness and response systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">According to the Kenya Red Cross Flood Operations Report (2024), the floods claimed at least 294 lives, displaced about 55,000 households, and destroyed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170421.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 UNESCO has completed a one-year project aimed at strengthening flood resilience in Kenya&#8217;s Tana River Basin, a region frequently hit by devastating floods. Dubbed Enhancing Flood Resilience in Kenya, the initiative was launched in 2025 following the deadly floods of May 2024 that exposed major gaps in preparedness and response systems. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230676,"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":[258,256,9745,6222,8785,4688,430,257,6504,18205,7263,254,12131,5017],"class_list":["post-230675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basin","tag-completes","tag-flood","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-resilience","tag-river","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tana","tag-unesco"],"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\/230675","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=230675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}