By Ben Parker
Hundreds of thousands of people in East Africa are affected by heavy rains and floods linked to record-breaking temperature changes in the Indian Ocean.
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Hameed told The New Humanitarian that equatorial East Africa is “very, very likely” to be unusually wet from October to December, adding: “November is the most dangerous month as far as IOD impacts are concerned, as enhanced rains reach far into highlands and the watersheds of several rivers.”
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Floods around the South Sudanese town of Maban, fed by rivers from highland Ethiopia, . The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, reports that although floods at this time of year in the region are normal, the scale of Maban’s this year is “unprecedented”.
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Local rainfall and increased river flow from Ethiopia makes flooding in October “highly likely” in many southern areas of Somalia, according to .