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On November 17 and 21, Cyclone Gati formed in the Indian Ocean and made landfall on November 22 near Xaafuun and the extreme north of northeast Somalia. It is the strongest storm on record in Somalia. Double the annual average rainfall was expected to fall in two days. Bosaso reported 128mm in 24 hours and extensive damage was reported in the Bari region. In the past two days, Gati has moved westward along the northern coast of Somalia towards Berbera and weakened as it headed for the Gulf of Aden.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Horn of Africa is now facing a plague of locusts.
Due to poor security, economic decline and the devastating pandemic, the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have warned that this could push the country to acute levels. of hunger and famine.
UN agencies further warned that the new wave risks spreading to other regions of vast East Africa including Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.
The recent cyclone and flooding experienced in Somalia is expected to allow widespread reproduction.
Earlier in the year, billions of insects destroyed crops across the region, and the UN warned that a second generation would be even more destructive.
Tens of thousands of hectares of farmland and pasture were damaged in the Horn and East Africa during the first wave.
In Ethiopia, between January and April, locusts destroyed 1.3 million hectares of pasture and almost 200,000 hectares of crops, causing the loss of 350,000 tonnes of cereals.
