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HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN-HORN OF AFRICA Weekly Round-up 397 for 25 - 30 August 2007

31 Aug 2007 13:02:43 GMT
Source: IRIN

NAIROBI, 31 August 2007 (IRIN) - CONTENTS:

SOMALIA: Crops destroyed as Shabelle bursts banks SUDAN: Prevention key to averting cholera outbreak in flood-hit areas SUDAN: Floods in eastern Sudan threaten food security

See Also: SOMALIA: Opinions mixed as reconciliation conference winds up http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74031

SOMALIA: Skipping school to attend school - children take charge of their education http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73959

SUDAN: AIDS education not reaching booming Yei fast enough

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74004

SUDAN: Floods put 3.5 million people at risk of disease - UN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74003

SUDAN: Prevention key to averting cholera outbreak in flood-hit areas http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73981

ETHIOPIA: Flood survivors struggle one year on http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73980

SOMALIA: Crops destroyed as Shabelle bursts banks

Floods have destroyed at least 4,000 hectares of farmland in southern Somalia's Middle Shabelle region, affecting 12,000 people, local officials said. The damage occurred around the town of Jowhar, the regional capital, where the Shabelle River burst its banks last week.

"Some of the villagers were about to harvest [crops] when the river broke its banks," Usman Haji Abdullahi Aqil, Jowhar district commissioner, told IRIN on 29 August. "Some 2,050 families [about 12,000 people] were affected and lost their crops." Full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73995

SUDAN: Prevention key to averting cholera outbreak in flood-hit areas

Sudan has been experiencing its worst floods ever, raising health concerns among officials, including Yakub Vaid, head of the World Health Organization's sub-office for eastern Sudan.

"Whenever there is a flood, there are three things we think about: environmental sanitation, water and outbreaks of communicable diseases," he said. These, he said, include increased cases of malaria, dengue fever and acute watery diarrhoea. Full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73981

SUDAN: Floods in eastern Sudan threaten food security

The farmer from Kassala in eastern Sudan had an idea of the power of the River Gash but never imagined it would threaten his livelihood and the region's food security to the extent it has done this year.

"It washed everything away," said Ali Soliman Dafallah, as he inspected what was left of his farm in Tamis, a small village on the Sudanese-Eritrean border famous for its fruit and vegetables, which are exported to other states in Sudan. Full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73958

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