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Floods displace 5,000 people in northeast

    NAIROBI

    More than 5,000 residents have been displaced in zone three of Afar State in the northeast after the Awash River burst its banks following torrential rains in mid-August. The sudden floods caused two dams to burst, completely flooding the neighbourhoods of Sumale and Menagesha, Amibara district, making the residents homeless and destroying over 5,000 hectares of cotton and maize, Walta Information Centre quoted Mohammed
    Akile, a member of the state council, as saying. Mohammed said the displaced were currently being sheltered in the premises of the Sidha Fage Senior Secondary school.

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