Seven people have died in a devastating overnight-floods in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
Local officials say torrential rain began on Friday night and lasted for about ten hours, displacing more than two hundred families.
Banadir regional administration revealed that two of the victims were women, and hundreds more have lost their homes.
According to a United Nations report published in April, more than forty-five thousand people have been affected by flash floods in Somalia since mid-April.
In 2023, over 100 people were killed and more than a million displaced by similar flooding, linked to the El Niño weather pattern.
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