FLOODING as a result of recent heavy rains has killed almost 200 people across Kenya, the government said Wednesday.

The water has also washed away some vital infrastructure.

In Rwanda more than 45 people have died and floods have killed 16 in Somalia. In Uganda high water levels have trapped an estimated 200 patients inside a hospital.

East African countries have also been hit by a locust invasion and COVID-19.

The authorities in Kenya have told people in some of the affected areas to move away from “potential danger.”

Meteorologists predict that the rains will continue throughout May, reports the BBC’s Patience Atuhaire in Uganda’s capital, Kampala.

In Rwanda, people died as a result of landslides in the mountainous northwest of the country.

Houses, roads and crops were all destroyed and hundreds remain homeless, mayors of the affected districts have told the BBC’s Great Lakes service.

In recent weeks, water levels in Lake Victoria have reach an unprecedented height, forcing shoreline communities to abandon their homes.

(SD-Agencies)