The Government of Somalia reported this Thursday: THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE INCREASED TO 96 deceased due to rain and flood It affects the country due to the passage of the ‘El Niño’ storm in the Horn of Africa.
According to the Hiiran newspaper, officials who met in Mogadisko to discuss the response to the storm stated that heavy rains affected approximately two million people, especially in Hirshabelle (center), Southwest Somalia and Jubaland (southern) states. news portal.
floodIt comes months after the longest and most severe drought ever recorded in the HornA significant part of the houses in the region were damaged or even destroyed, causing many people to take shelter under trees or in high places.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned that heavy and persistent rains could lead to serious floods in the Horn of Africa. They are forcing the displacement of thousands of familiesAmong them are refugees from Ethiopia, Kenya or Somalia.
In addition, clean, safe drinking water has become a scarce commodity Thousands of cattle and hectares of crops were affected, as well as health services. This situation as a whole increases the risk of “a further deterioration of the already precarious food situation”, UNHCR said.
In this context, some refugees have hosted newly displaced people in their homes, and many are therefore overcrowded. In this sense, sanitation has become one of the main causes of concern for the United Nations Refugee Agency, as “hundreds of public toilets have been damaged, exposing people to infectious diseases, including cholera”.