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Catastrophe Report 11
November 8th 2006 - March 5th 2007 - Bill McGuire |
Floods - Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya
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Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya |
| Region: |
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Horn of Africa |
| Date: |
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November – December 2006 |
| Event: |
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Floods |
| Impact: |
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In Somalia, 116 people have died and a further
454,000 displaced by the floods, as of mid-December, including
299,000 along the Shabelle 155,500 along the Juba. In Kenya,
114 fatalities were reported due to flooding across central,
western, eastern, north-eastern, and coastal provinces, between
mid-October and mid-December, while a total of more than 720,000
people were affected. In Ethiopia’s south-eastern Somalie
region, 80 fatalities are reported with more than 360,000 affected.
Many tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed and massive
crop and livestock losses have occurred across the region, compounding
food problems caused by prolonged drought conditions that preceded
the rains. |
| Summary: |
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Continued, extreme rainfall across the Horn
of Africa between early October and December led to severe flooding
across the region. Particularly badly hot were those areas adjacent
to the Shabelle and Juba rivers and their tributaries in Ethiopia’s
Somali region and in southern Somalia itself. Also severely
affected were Kenya’s Tana River, in particular around
the towns of Wajir and Garissa, and rivers in west of the country.
The extreme and extended nature of the rainy season has been
blamed on the prevailing El Niño, and continued problems
with torrential rains and flooding are predicted to continue
well into 2007. |
| Data sources: |
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Reliefweb
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=FL-2006-000169-SOM&rc=1
World Health Organisation
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2006/np36/en/index.html |
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6163392.stm
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