Somali government will today dispatch assessment delegates to Beledweyne and Bardhere towns after the towns were affected by the floods.
The leaders of the government have been carrying out efforts to reduce the impact of the floods splashed by the country’s two main rivers and the heavy torrential rains.
The delegates were drawn from the 22-member Flood Respond Committee tasked to deal with the humanitarian crisis that the country is facing the rivers burst their banks.
According to the reliable sources, delegates heading Beledweyne town will be deliver the second phase of the aid since formed.
Other officials travelling to Bardhere town of Gedo region will assess the situation of the families displaced as River Jubba bursts its banks leading the destruction of crops and houses.
The federal government of Somali Federal so far disbursed $1.5 Million to help the flood-stricken residents in the country.
The amount pledged by Somali government will be the first fund to be used to deliver emergency helping flood-hit areas in central and Southern Somalia.
Over six hundred thousand people have been displaced by floods after rivers breached its banks in Beledweyne and several other towns.
Humanitarian agencies in Somalia this week appealed funds to cope with the situation in the country.
“The internally displaced people remain the most vulnerable to the impact of the flooding with many camps located in Low-lying areas,” said the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Stéphen Dujarric, “humanitarian partners on the ground have priotised water, sanitation, hygiene (health), shelter and food response in their interventions.”
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the current floods are some of the worst in the region has ever seen and the current water level exceeds a 50 year return period in most locations.
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