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At least 62 people have been killed — including eight children — since devastating flash floods swept through Kenya's capital Nairobi and other parts of the country beginning on the night of March 6, 2026, with the death toll continuing to rise as rescue teams search flooded neighbourhoods, vehicles, and waterways for additional victims. Kenya's Ministry of Interior and National Administration confirmed the updated toll on Friday March 13, 2026, in a statement that broke down the casualties by gender and region. Of the 62 dead, 46 were men, eight were women, and eight were children. The capital Nairobi bore the heaviest toll with 33 deaths , followed by the Eastern region with 17, the Rift Valley with 7, Nyanza and the Coast with 2 each, and Central Kenya with 1. Reuters, citing Kenyan police in a Saturday March 14 update, confirmed the 62-death toll and added that more than 2,000 families have been displaced across Kenya — with intense rain continuing in several region...

The Iran war entered its third week on Saturday March 14, 2026 with no sign of slowing down — and with a human cost that has grown into one of the worst regional catastrophes the Middle East has seen in decades. More than 1,300 people have been killed in Iran alone, according to Iran's ambassador to the United Nations. Across the entire region, the combined death toll — including Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Gulf states — has surpassed 2,500 people . And more than 3.2 million people have been displaced in Iran by the relentless waves of US and Israeli airstrikes, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR. These are not statistics. They are human lives — doctors, teachers, students, engineers, mothers, fathers, and children — caught in the middle of a war between governments and militaries that most of them had no power to stop. As NPR's comprehensive two-week casualty tracker noted on March 13: "After two weeks of war in Iran, hundreds o...