Save the Children: Extreme Flooding Batters Somalia, Forcing at Least 100,000 Children From Their Homes
October 31, 2019
October 31, 2019
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Oct. 31 -- Save the Children issued the following news release:
At least 200,000 people--including at least 100,000 children/1 --have been forced to flee their homes in the town of Beledweyne following heavy rains that continue to fall across Hiraan and Bakool regions of central Somalia.
Save the Children teams on the ground are reporting whole neighborhoods are now underwater, with families escaping on tractors, via donkey cart, on boats, and on . . .
At least 200,000 people--including at least 100,000 children/1 --have been forced to flee their homes in the town of Beledweyne following heavy rains that continue to fall across Hiraan and Bakool regions of central Somalia.
Save the Children teams on the ground are reporting whole neighborhoods are now underwater, with families escaping on tractors, via donkey cart, on boats, and on . . .