UNITED NATIONS: More than 150,000 Somalians have fled their homes since June due to flash and riverine flooding in the southern regions of this Horn of Africa nation, a United Nations spokesman said.

“In Somalia, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said today that more than 150,000 people have fled their homes since late June — including 23,000 in the last week alone — due to flooding in the southern parts of the country,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told journalists at a virtual press briefing.

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