52,000 displaced’ by Ethiopia floods

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“At least 52,000 people have abandoned their homes in Ethiopia’s Somali region after the Wade Shabelle and Genale rivers burst their banks following heavy rains,” the United Nations’ humanitarian news agency IRIN reported.

The agency said heavy rains fell on the region for six days from November 2.

The report said that “36,888 people were displaced and three killed in the worst-affected woreda (a small district), Kelafo, in Gode.”