Record El Niño threatens to unleash floods across East Africa and Asia
A rapidly intensifying El Niño weather pattern is threatening to bring severe flooding, disease and drought to some of the world’s most vulnerable communities across East Africa and Asia, a humanitarian organisation has warned.
Kenya’s weather service has confirmed an 80-82 percent likelihood that El Niño will persist through the year and has activated its national disaster plan ahead of heavier October-December rains, following a drier midyear.
The US-funded early warning body FEWS NET has assessed a credible risk of famine in southern regions if flooding later this year matches 1997 or 2023, when the same El Niño-Indian Ocean combination submerged farmland and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
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