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At least 111 people have been killed in the Horn of Africa in recent weeks after heavy rains and flash floods. This was announced by the aid organization Save the Children on Thursday.

In the region in the northeast of the continent, more than 770,000 people have already been displaced as a result of the extreme weather. Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are particularly hard hit. Further heavy rainfall is forecast for the region.

According to the aid agency, heavy rains since October have led to widespread flooding in northern Kenya and the capital Nairobi, killing an estimated 46 people and displacing 36,000 others. In the Somali regional capital Beledweyne, in the center of the country, about 90 percent of residents lost their homes due to flooding. In total, at least 32 people were killed and nearly half a million displaced in Somalia, most of them in the southwestern Bay Region.

In neighboring Ethiopia, at least 33 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides in the regions of Gambella, Afar and Somalia, according to Save the Children.

The floods are the latest in a series of extreme weather events in the Horn of Africa. At the same time, the region is experiencing one of the worst droughts in decades. Before the massive rainfall, no rain had fallen for several consecutive periods. According to the UN, millions of people are at risk of going hungry in the Horn of Africa. The crisis is also caused by conflicts such as the recent power struggle in Sudan, the aftermath of the corona pandemic, the threat of Islamist terrorists and outbreaks of cholera and other diseases.

(hah/sda/dpa)