Somalia's Climate Crisis: Historic Floods Displace Hundreds of Thousands.
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Heavy rainfall in Somalia and the Ethiopian highlands has caused flash floods in Beledweyne, displacing almost the entire population and forcing nearly 250,000 people to leave their homes. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has called for urgent funding to scale up assistance. Somalia is already suffering from the worst drought in four decades due to the climate crisis, and the recent precipitation will not counter the devastation caused by years of below-average rainfall.
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- Urgent assistance is needed to help communities affected by historic Shabelle river flooding in Somalia - Somalia ReliefWeb
- Somalia: Floods force nearly quarter of a million to flee DW (English)
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