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Somalia sets up disaster warning centre to battle floods and locusts

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In 2018, floods displaced over 150,000 people in Belet Weyne, Somalia.UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed
In 2018, floods displaced over 150,000 people in Belet Weyne, Somalia.UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed

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Khadar Sheikh Mohamed is the director of the new national disaster early warning centre designed to help Somalia predict disasters. This year it has already suffered from flooding and a locust invasion.

"Finding the accurate data which may save lives is ... important for us," he told Reuters at the centre.

The centre opened in June, and is funded by Saudi Arabia through the United Nations' World Food Programme. It was conceived after cycles of floods and drought caused widespread food shortages, including a famine in 2011 that killed more than a quarter of a million people.

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