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Heavy rains have caused flash floods in Somalia, displacing half a million people and killing more than 30. The combined effects of two climatic phenomena, El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole, exacerbated the situation.
The Horn of Africa nation has been lashed by unrelenting downpours since the beginning of the month due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, inundating homes and farmland.
The UN’s top aid official in Ukraine said on Thursday she was “outraged” over a Russian attack on a civilian ship in the Black Sea Port of Pivdennyi in Odesa which left a local port worker dead, and crew members injured.
More than 1.6 million people could be affected by the unusually heavy seasonal rains.
More than 1.6 million people could be affected by the unusually heavy seasonal rains.