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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Bashir Mohamed Caato

First the drought, then flood: Climate crisis compounds woes for Somalis

A woman collects flood water following heavy rains that have led the Juba river to overflow and flood large swathes of land in Dolow, Somalia, November 13, 2023 [Feisal Omar/Reuters]

At a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Baidoa city in southwest Somalia, Halima Abdi, 57, walks through the flooded compound to access her makeshift house. It is partly submerged in the water, which had forced her to leave the previous day.

Most of her neighbours have left to seek shelter in Baidoa and, as she stands in the almost-empty camp of scattered shanty houses, she checks to see what is left after the flood swept away her belongings.

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