Mogadishu (KAAB TV) — A new report from the United Nations reveals that severe flooding in Somalia, triggered by heavy rains since mid-April, has affected more than 84,000 people and resulted in at least 17 fatalities.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), meteorologists warn that continued rainfall is expected in southern and central Somalia in the coming days, driven in part by ongoing climate change.
OCHA notes that the floods have caused widespread damage across several regions of the country, exacerbating the already precarious humanitarian situation.
The agency emphasized that a lack of funding for non-governmental organizations is severely limiting their ability to respond to the emergency.
This crisis comes less than a year after catastrophic flooding in 2023, which claimed 22 people’s lives and displaced more than one million people.
Those floods were attributed to the El Niño weather phenomenon and underscored Somalia’s vulnerability to climate-induced disasters.