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| | News: Horn of Africa: Floods - Nov 2006, Somalia: Floods displace thousands more in Hiiraan region |
 | | NAIROBI, 14 November (IRIN) - Continued flooding in southern Somalia has displaced tens of thousands of people in the Hiiraan region, with large tracts of farmland submerged in and around Beletweyne, the region's capital, sources said on Tuesday. |
 | | A journalist, Abdirahman Dini, said rain-induced floods caused the Shabelle River to burst its banks and flood Beletweyne, 350 km northwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. |
 | | "The floods have displaced around 80 percent of the population of the eastern part of the town and 20 percent of the western part," Sheikh Farah Mo'alim, the governor of Hiiraan, told IRIN on Tuesday. |
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