[AnNahar] Over 90,000 people in war-torn southern Somalia have been hit by weeks of severe flooding, almost half of them forced from their homes, the United Nations...a formerly good idea gone bad...
has warned.
| All the kewl kids are getting flooded these days: Egypt, Israel, Gaza -- though that was the hand of man rather than God -- Lebanon, Iraq, part of Iran... and now far away Somalia. |
Hardest hit are the southern Somali regions of Bakool, Bay, Lower Juba, Middle Juba and Middle Shabelle, with flash flooding in late October, the U.N. report released late Friday read.
Fighting continues in many of those areas between Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab snuffies and government and allied forces, backed by an African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
force that counts more than 20,000 members.
The U.N. said that while rains and river levels have now eased, the risk of more flooding is not over.
"Thousands of people in the low lying areas of the southern and central parts of Somalia remain at risk of flash and river flooding," the U.N. added.
Somalia is hit by seasonal flooding most years,
| ..also known as winter? |
| Whew! Not global climate catastrophe, just normal cycles. |
The U.N. last month warned El Nino could drive the number of people needing aid soaring by over 80 percent, from some 12 million people at the start of 2015 to over 22 million people by the start of 2016.
| And I could suddenly regain my girlhood figure and energy. But the odds are low. |