Cyclone about to make a landfall in Puntland

[STARKAST]

^^ Are you a retard ?

Do you do realize India has more poverty than the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa ? This is an undisputed fact !
Start a foundation funding doctors in Somalia and stop complaining. That's what I've done. Fund a water well in these Villages.

Praying for heavy rain only.....

[AbdiJohnson]

You have no idea what I engage in in Somalia so be quiet.

My rant had to do with posters taking this cyclone not as serious and brushing it off as a regular storm.



I am,

Abdi "Quit Claiming Awdal" Johnson

[STARKAST]

Funny, Are you going to say to Reer Xamar quit claiming the capital because its Majority hawiye ? Somali Retard Logic.

Multinicker stop conversing with me.

[original dervish]

I doubt very much there will be serious loss of life.
More Somali kids will die of dysentery during the storm, than the storm itself.
On the other hand, the extra rainfall and resulting pasture will give millions of Somali`s respite from the near famine conditions.

[Bermooda]

The cyclone has made landfall with reports of 1 dead already AUN.

[hydrogen]

[oxymoron]

Rain is always welcome in Puntland.


Speechless Indeed.....

[Bermooda]

A tropical cyclone that hit the north-eastern Somali region of Puntland over the weekend killed up to 100 people, the regional lead has told the BBC.

Puntland's President Abdirahman Farole said thousands of livestock had also died and hundreds of homes had been destroyed.

The semi-autonomous region was hit by strong winds, heavy rains and flash floods on Saturday and Sunday.

Some fishermen have also been reported missing.

The tropical cyclone, known as 03A, affected coastal areas and continued inland.

Mr Farole said the areas affected were now inaccessible by road.

The authorities were trying to organise to send in food - dates and biscuits - by air to those affected by the cyclone, he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa- ... ter_africa

[STARKAST]

(Reuters) - At least 100 people were killed when a tropical cyclone hit Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region at the weekend, the government said on Monday, declaring a state of emergency and appealing for international aid.

The government said hundreds of people were missing after the storm made landfall on Saturday.

"Houses and livestock were swept into the ocean by the floods," President Abdirahman Mohamud Farole told reporters in the capital Garowe.

"We urge United Nations aid agencies to assist the victims. As Puntland, we have established a committee to investigate the loss and damage. Electricity, communication and fishing boats were all destroyed."

The government said preliminary information showed more than 100,000 livestock were lost and fishing boats swept away, endangering the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people.

The storm was forecast to move inland and continue until Wednesday.

The storm hit the Eyl, Beyla, Dangorayo and Hafun districts along the eastern coast and across to Alula at the tip of the Horn of Africa. High winds and heavy rains caused flash floods and cut off roads to the coastal areas.

"I have buried 10 members of my family, the icy storm and rain killed more than hundred people here," elder Hussein Abdullahi, 57, told Reuters from Eyl.

"I have never witnessed such fatal cold. Some people were blown away and others died after their houses collapsed on them. Some people, and the animals they were looking after, are still missing," he said.

Puntland spans the north of Somalia and has largely escaped the worst of the country's upheaval of the last 20 years. Foreign powers advocating a loose federal political system in Somalia have held it up as a possible model.

The area is rich in energy resources and is being sized up by oil explorers. However, Puntland's authorities have said insecurity is growing and blame the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which has been driven out of many regions that it used to control in the rest of Somalia.

In August, Puntland said it had cut ties with the central government in Mogadishu, accusing it of refusing to share power and foreign aid with the regions.

(Writing by James Macharia; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/ ... K420131111

[Bermooda]

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon this cyclone has devastated Puntland and is now about to do the same to Somaliland
http://puntlandi.com/somalia-press-rele ... ared-dead/


http://somalilandinformer.com/index.php ... r-minister