Flood in Beledweyne. AP
A quarter of a million Somalis flee flooding
Nearly 250,000 people have been forced to flee Somalia after the Shabelle River caused devastating floods in the town of Beledwyne, Reuters reports.
- At one point the whole city was under water. Beledwyne became like an ocean, says shopkeeper Ahmed Nur.
It comes as the country is going through its worst drought in four years, which initially prompted residents to celebrate the rain that started a few weeks ago.
The drought, combined with violence and rising food prices due to the war in Ukraine, killed around 43,000 people.
Dry part of Lac de Serre-Poncon in France. Daniel Cole / AP
Water levels have dropped in more than half of the world's lakes
Water is disappearing in more than half of the world's large lakes and water reservoirs - and climate change and human consumption are the main causes. That's according to a new study published in the journal Science.
According to the study, roughly 22 gigatons of freshwater have been lost annually since 1990, cumulatively.
This applies, among other things, to some of the world's most important sources of fresh water, such as Lake Titicaca in Latin America and the Caspian Sea between Europe and Asia. About a quarter of the world's population, 2 billion people, live in affected areas, writes Axios.
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