Tag: displaces
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Heavy flooding in southern Myanmar displaces more than 10,000 people – Winnipeg Free Press
[ad_1] BANGKOK (AP) — Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar’s southern areas has displaced more than 10,000 people and disrupted traffic on the rail lines that connect the country’s biggest cities, officials and state-run media said Monday. A senior official at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Lay Shwe Zin Oo,…
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Flooding in Somalia Displaces 200,000 People: Official
[ad_1] The disaster comes on the heels of a record drought that has left millions of Somalis on the brink of famine, with the troubled nation also battling an Islamist insurgency for decades. (File photo: AFP) Inhabitants of Beledweyne town in Hiran region were forced out of their homes as heavy rainfall caused water levels…