Im christine want to welcome to news africa its good to have you along Emergency Assistance has been making its way into somalia where hundreds of thousands have been driven from their homes by severe flooding the aid includes ready to eat food possibles from the World Food Program and blankets and mattresses from the Un Migration Agency done more than kenya and ethiopia have also been hit by be heavier than normal rains but somalia has been particularly affected both and 300000 people there have been made homeless now this is said to be some of the worst flooding the country has experienced it is ill be talking to one organization about the relief efforts off to this report. Roads and villages turned into rivers overnight and tens of thousands displaced. Without guns our homes us have much now and you can only access the area by boat one of the last months of drought the heavy rains are now destroying what was left of people scraps and livestock. Malnutrition and the threat of disease
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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