Mvua ya El Nino yaua 100 na kuhamisha 70,000

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Watu sio chini ya 100 wamefariki dunia ndani ya miezi mitatu iliyopita kufuatia mvua kubwa za El-Nino zinazoendelea kunyesha sehemu kubwa ya nchi.

Kulingana na ripoti ofisi ya umoja wa mataifa juu ya masuala ya kibinadamu(UNOCHA) iliyotolewa Jumatano, watu 100 waliofariki walizama kwenye mafuriko yaliyoikumba sehemu kubwa ya nchi.

Kiongozi wa UNOCHA, Peter Manfield amesema mvua hizo zimeacha watu 70,000 wakihama makazi yao, idadi ambayo anasema ni ndogo kuliko iivyotarajiwa awali lakini ameutahadharisha umma kuwa mvua zaidi zinatarajiwa kunyesha kipindi cha sikukuu. Manfield amesema mvua zinaweka tishio kwenye ukanda.

Wakati huo huo, kuna uwezekano wa kuongezeka kwa mvua zenye uwezekano wa mafuriko kwenye sehemu za Uganda, Kenya, Kusini mwa Ethiopia, kusini mwa Sudani ya kusini, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania na nusu ya kusini mwa Somalia.

El Nino kills 100, displaces over 70,000 others

El Nino kills 100, displaces over 70,000 others

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At least 100 people have died over the last three months following the El-Nino rains that continue being experienced in most parts of the country.

According to a United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) report released Wednesday, the 100 people who died drowned in flash floods that hit most parts of the country.

UNOCHA head Peter Manfield, said that the rains also left another 70,000 displacement, a number he says is significantly lower than expected but cautioned the public that more rains will be expected during this festive season.

Manfield said the rains pose a potential threat to the region.

IGAD Director of Climate Prediction and Applications Guleid Artan called on UN agencies to provide more funding to avert the effects of the El-Nino rains.

The directors said there was an increase rains in most parts of the country since the beginning of El Nino.

"A total of 1,460 families are at risk due to their status of living on the slopes of highlands, where more than twelve landslides incidents have occurred sweeping away crops and destroying some houses in the country," they said.

Manfield said most Kenyans have complained of the effects caused by El-Nino rains since it started with many of them having witnessed devastating flooding throughout the tropics and sub-tropical zones bearing the hallmarks that will never be forgotten.

He urged the government to prepare better in mobilizing its citizenry on the effects of El Nino, the safest places to stay in cases of such a rain and some of the mitigation measures to be put in place to help reduce the magnitude of damages of the rain.

"The number of cases of severe and moderate acute, malnutrition among children has also significantly increased in Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Kenya and this trend is likely to persist over coming months," said Mr. Pete Manfield.

El Nino has had diverse effects in various countries in the Horn of Africa, the report shows, with floods in Kenya, Uganda and parts of Somalia and Ethiopia.

Conversely, drought conditions have been reported in parts of Ethiopia and Sudan and drier-than-average conditions in parts of Eritrea, Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, parts of northern Uganda and parts of Somalia.

In total, 18 million people in the Eastern Africa region are at risk of being food insecure and the number is expected to rise significantly in 2016 due to the lasting effects of floods which will affect harvests.

At the same time, there are likely to be increased chances of rains with high risk of flooding in parts of Uganda, Kenya, southern Ethiopia, southern parts of South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and the southern half of Somalia.

CHANZO: CITIZEN

 

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Geographical background of Eastern Africa countries rain patterns are termed as " unreliable" in sense that they could fall too little for any effective agricultural productions , if fall in enough depths for crop productions, they rain in bad distributions , equally they could rain in highly intensities and cause floods and disasters. By that scenario we have such repeatability causing circles of draught, famine and disasters caused by floods. Time immemorial there has been existing "hydrological return circles" which unfortunately were not noted by public at large as such sufferings and disasters caused by the return circles are enormous in terms of both human lives and materials loses. Elnino have been existing since then although current world wide climatic changes my have aggravated the situation hence severity and extremes to the problems cause by the changes. Whence by the help of modern and up to date meteorological equipment such radar and satellites, these disaster could foretold and remedial measures to be taken in advance. Crop resistant to drought but require short time to reap should emphasized. Volumes Surface runoff water should reduced and retained for better future uses. In short environmental friendly designs for all sort of lives should envisaged. Some measures could be taken to lessen the problem. Just let us raise as one.