HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN-HORN OF AFRICA Weekly Round-up 397 for 25 - 30 August 2007
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NAIROBI, 31 August 2007 (IRIN) - 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=73995SUDAN: 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.
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73981SUDAN: 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.
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