{"id":242933,"date":"2026-09-02T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-warns-el-nino-rains-could-overwhelm-drainage-urges-evacuation-from-high-risk-areas\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:17:11","slug":"kenya-govt-warns-el-nino-rains-could-overwhelm-drainage-urges-evacuation-from-high-risk-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-warns-el-nino-rains-could-overwhelm-drainage-urges-evacuation-from-high-risk-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Govt Warns El Ni\u00f1o Rains Could Overwhelm Drainage, Urges Evacuation From High-Risk Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 The government has warned that Kenya remains at significant risk of flooding, displacement and loss of life as the country prepares for the expected El Ni\u00f1o rains, despite intensified measures to strengthen disaster preparedness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Ministry of Interior and National Administration said the October-December (OND) rains are expected to bring above-normal rainfall across most parts of the country, with some counties in Western\/Nyanza and North Eastern regions likely to experience an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609010422.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 government has warned that Kenya remains at significant risk of flooding, displacement and loss of life as the country prepares for the expected El Ni\u00f1o rains, despite intensified measures to strengthen disaster preparedness. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration said the October-December (OND) rains are expected to bring above-normal rainfall across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":242934,"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":[258,256,7311,18825,9914,4357,23124,4688,430,257,25815,34058,15767,254,6810,6853],"class_list":["post-242933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-areas","tag-drainage","tag-evacuation","tag-govt","tag-highrisk","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nino","tag-overwhelm","tag-rains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-warns"],"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\/242933","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=242933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}