towards the east africa more heavy rainfall is expected in the next coming days. all right i'm joined by jim a connal in nairobi she's from the united nations and is coordinating their aid relief to the affected areas welcome to the africa gemma can you tell us about the situation on the ground as we speak in the flood affected areas. sharyn thanks so much for having me today we've got a very serious situation across multiple countries in east africa right now there's about 2500000 people affected by the flooding across the region and that includes in ethiopia somalia south sudan and sudan as well as more people in tanzania and uganda so there are hundreds of thousands of people who are being displaced who have lost their homes who have lost their livelihoods we've got many reports of thousands of livestock killed across these countries by the floods was referring flooding and flash flooding and of course we've got roads down and we've got access