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MAP: Weather Hazards Impacts Assessment for Africa (Nov 27 - Dec 3, 2008)
27 Nov 2008
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Heavy rains during the first half of November caused the Wade Shabelle and Genale rivers in the Somali region of Ethiopia to burst their banks, displacing thousands of people.

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A Melka Guba villager holds her sick and malnourished child in the village around Negele, southern Oromia, Ethiopia, in this November 18, 2008 handout photo. Successive years of drought have had ...


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