SIOLO-NAIROBI, 10 March 2010: At least 10.000 people in Kenya have been displaced by flooding, mainly in the north, which has prompted fears of an outbreak of waterborne diseases. Hundreds of heads of livestock have drowned or gone missing and dozens of houses and business stalls are submerged.

Of the displaced, 2.100 are in Mandera in the northeast and 3.600 in Lokori region in Turkana in the northwest, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) communications manager, Titus Mung’ou, told IRIN on 9 March. -In Mandera, flooding from the River Daua is ongoing. The entire clean water system is now un-operational, said Mung’ou.