{"id":123142,"date":"2023-11-24T19:57:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/24\/50-people-killed-in-flash-floods-700000-people-displaced-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T19:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:57:31","slug":"50-people-killed-in-flash-floods-700000-people-displaced-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/24\/50-people-killed-in-flash-floods-700000-people-displaced-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"50 people killed in flash floods, 700,000 people displaced in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">Flash flooding has killed at least 50 people and driven nearly 700,000 from their homes, a government official said, with more heavy rains expected to worsen Somalia\u2019s plight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The Horn of Africa region is currently facing heavy rains and floods\u00a0attributed to the El Ni\u00f1o weather phenomenon, and\u00a0Somalia\u00a0is being hit hard with intense downpours destroying bridges and flooding residential areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The British charity Save the Children reported that over 100 people, including 16 children, lost their lives, and more than 700,000 people were compelled to evacuate their homes in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia as a result of\u00a0Flash Flooding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" data-para-word-count=\"63\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The Horn of Africa stands as one of the regions most susceptible to the impacts of climate change, experiencing a rise in the frequency and intensity of\u00a0extreme weather events. 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