East Africa: Unprecedented Flooding Displaces Hundreds of Thousands Across East Africa

"Unprecedented and devastating" flooding in east Africa has triggered widespread displacement with hundreds of thousands forced from their homes in Burundi , Kenya , Rwanda, Somalia , Ethiopia and Tanzania , UN humanitarians234,000 displaced in just the last five days"The numbers keep rising," the UN agency said, noting that the flooding emergency was one of the"harsh realities" of climate change, which has claimed lives and uprooted entire communities.

"In this critical moment - even as IOM responds - the call remains urgent for sustainable efforts to address human mobility spurred by a changing climate," she continued. Help is also underway in neighbouring Ethiopia - to more than 70,000 flood-affected people across Somali and Oromia regions - and to 39,000 people in Kenya's most severely flood-affected east, centre and west - and Somalia, where some 240,000 people are to receive shelter materials, hygiene kits, essential medical care and psychosocial support, among other services.

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