Nearly 700,000 people have been affected by weeks of severe flooding in Mozambique
Residents of a slum say the destruction of their homes caught them by surprise and they have nowhere to stay.
Residents near 178 bodies of water have been told to leave as flooding is set to worsen.
Two of Grishon Waiganjo's sons were swept away in recent flooding in Kenya that has killed hundreds of people.
Villagers were swept away as they slept after a tide of water crashed downstream.
Kenya's President William Ruto says that he will deploy 'every resource' to help tackle the flood emergency.
East Africa is being pounded by unusually heavy rains linked to a combination of global weather events.
The BBC's Mercy Juma travelled to South Sudan where hundreds of villages have been affected by the floods.
