News brief

Floods kill dozens in Kenya. Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. The East African country has seen weeks of heavy rains and severe flooding in its capital, Nairobi, as well as in the country's western and central regions. Kenya's government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura on April 26 refuted claims that hundreds of people have died in the ongoing flooding and said the official tally now stands at 70. More than 130,000 people are currently affected with thousands of houses washed away and others flooded.