1,000 People Killed in Month of Flooding

A month of flooding in the southern part of the country has killed at least 1,000 people, wiped out the region’s staple sorghum crop and left hundreds of thousands of people hungry and homeless. Aid officials said the death toll was sure to rise further, along with the flood waters that threatened to inundate the few remaining usable airstrips needed for delivering food and medicine. Large areas between the Ethiopian border and the Indian Ocean coast were under water, and 10 more days of rain were forecast for Ethiopia.