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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 397
25 - 30 August 2007


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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