At least 114 people have been found dead following recent floods in Djibouti, the Red Cross said on Thursday.
”Two villages have been particularly affected. We estimate 10 000 people have lost their homes or their property,” Steve Penny of the International Red Cross Federation said.
He said the affected people had been living on the banks of dry river beds.
Torrential rains over the Easter weekend forced the Ambouli river in the tiny Horn of Africa country to burst out of its banks.
Extremely strong winds lifted corrugated iron roofs off houses and blew over telephone poles.
In Kenya, several thousand people have been displaced by floods in recent days and at least 15 have died. — Sapa-DPA