{"id":82237,"date":"2023-11-10T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/somalia-floods-dozens-dead-and-thousands-displaced-after-worst-floods-in-decades-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:12:37","slug":"somalia-floods-dozens-dead-and-thousands-displaced-after-worst-floods-in-decades-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/somalia-floods-dozens-dead-and-thousands-displaced-after-worst-floods-in-decades-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia floods: Dozens dead and thousands displaced after ‘worst floods in decades’ | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least 44 people have died in Kenya and Somalia after heavy flooding struck the East African countries. <\/p>\n

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement late on Thursday that around 1.6 million people in Somalia <\/strong>could be affected by the downpours.<\/p>\n

The floods<\/strong>, which followed heavy rains beginning in early October, have killed at least 29 people in the country and forced more than 300,000 from their homes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Kenya <\/strong>Red Cross said 15 people had died in the country since heavy rains began last Friday.<\/p>\n

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Somalia’s Disaster Management Agency said a state of emergency was in place on Tuesday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Hassan Isse, managing director of the Somali Disaster Management Agency (SOMDA), told Reuters: “What is going on today is the worst for decades. It is worse than even the 1997 floods.”<\/p>\n

Floods in November that year killed more than 2,000 people, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross’s Africa branch.<\/p>\n

OCHA explained the downpours were worsened by the twin climate effects of El Ni\u00f1o and the Indian Ocean Dipole.<\/p>\n

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Martin Griffiths, the UN’s Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief coordinator, said: “Extreme weather linked to the ongoing El Ni\u00f1o risks further driving up humanitarian needs in already-vulnerable communities in Somalia and many other places.<\/p>\n

“We know what the risks are, and we need to get ahead of these looming crises.”<\/p>\n

OCHA also said in a Thursday evening update: “More rain is expected in the coming days with the forecast for 8 to 15 November indicating very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in southern Somalia and wetter than usual conditions in central and southern Somalia.”<\/p>\n

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In Kenya, the port city of Mombasa and the northeastern counties of Mandera and Wajir were the worst affected in the country.<\/p>\n

Peter Murgor, a disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation manager for Kenya’s Red Cross, told Voice of America: “We are informed by the [weather forecaster] that November normally is the peak.”<\/p>\n

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He added: “If November is the peak and we are just at the beginning of November, chances are… the situation is likely to worsen in the month towards the end, probably seeing a bit more people being displaced, probably seeing a bit more loss of livelihoods.”<\/p>\n

In a forecast for the last quarter of the season, the Kenya Meteorological Department warned the country will experience above-average rainfall, driven by warmer sea surface temperatures over the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

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