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 MOGADISHU (Insidesomalia.org) - Somalia’s Shabelle River broke its banks flooding a number of villages in Afgooye, a town 30 km west of Mogadishu, displacing hundreds of villagers and destroying their livestock and crops, villager Elders said.
“Three of our villages were completely inundated by flood waters and hundreds of villagers were forced to evacuate” Abdi Omar Hirabe, Wargedow village elder told Insidesomalia.
“They left everything they had behind: livestock, crops and their huts, everything”.
Hirabe said that the villagers have not received any assistance from neither local nor international aid agencies. He said the flood waters have affected wide area near the Shabelle River and feared that diseases may spread in the area.
Aisha Nur, a mother of four, left her hut and took what she could to escape the advancing flood water. She wanted to reach the nearest high lands to get to dry land.
“I am leaving my home with my children from the flood waters they fill everywhere”, Aisha told Insidesomalia, “I am going to the nearest dry land with my children”.
Floods affect the horn of African nation nearly every year causing widespread displacement and famine. Many flood stricken people depend on food hand out from aid agencies.
Last year devastating floods hit villages and towns in Lower Shabelle and Middle Shabelle regions and displaced hundreds of families who had been hit by brought in the previous year.
Somalia has been without a central authority since the overthrow of former President Mohamed Siyad Barre in 1991 when the country plunged into clan rivalry until the current transitional federal government was formed in Nairobi after a protracted peace talks there.
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