Downpours Flood Kenya as Delegates Meet to Discuss Deadly Drought-Flood Cycles

Since then, at least 60 000 Kenyans - 50 000 on the coast and 10 000 in the northeast - have been forced from their homes by flood waters that have washed away crop fields, bridges and roads and destroyed numerous buildings.

"All these people are directly affected or completely cut off and we cannot access them," Ahmed said.

On Saturday, the main road linking Mombasa, about 500km south-east of Nairobi, to Tanzania was cut off with four bridges washed away, a local official said.