Weather tracker: Ethiopia hit by severe drought amid east Africa floods
by Morgan Thomas and Matt Williams for MetDesk from Environment | The Guardian on (#6GMC2)
More than 50 people dead in Tigray and Amhara regions while UN warns of crisis-level hunger or worse' in Somalia
The regions of Tigray and Amhara in northern Ethiopia have continued to experience severe drought conditions with more than 50 people dead, as well as 4,000 cattle.
While northern Ethiopia suffers from droughts, the southern and eastern parts of the country, along with Kenya and Somalia, have been hit by flooding. Somalia suffered the worst of the flooding, with 50 people reported dead. According to the Somali disaster management agency almost 700,000 people have been forced to leave their homes.
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