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Somalia Struggles After Worst Flooding in Recent History

Associated Press

   MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - Ahmed Sabrie woke up to find his house
   half-submerged in fast-rising flood waters.

   Frightened and confused, he herded sleepy family members onto the roof
   of their home in central Somalia as scores of thousands of people in
   the town, Beledweyne, scrambled for their lives. Clinging to an
   electric power pylon by the edge of the roof, the family watched as
   their possessions were washed away.

   "I could hear people, perhaps my neighbors, screaming for help but I
   could only fight for the survival of my family," the 38-year-old
   Sabrie, the father of four, recalled. As one of his children wailed,
   the family waited for more than 10 hours before a passing rescue boat
   spotted them.

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