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EAST AFRICA: Dozens die as tail end of tsunami slams coastal areas NAIROBI,
28 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Dozens of people were killed when huge waves triggered by
an earthquake in the Indian Ocean slammed into coastal areas of Somalia, Kenya
and Tanzania on Sunday, officials said. In Somalia, the deputy speaker of the
transitional federal parliament, Mohammed Omar Dala, said nearly 50 people
drowned when their boats were struck by the waves.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4134485.stm
Somalia wave victims 'forgotten' Somalia has largely been forgotten by the
international community in its response to help victims of Sunday's tsunami,
the United Nations says. Jan Egeland, the UN's emergency relief co-ordinator,
said UN personnel had only just reached villages affected. Aid workers have
described a scene of devastation on the Somali island of Hafun, a fishing
community of 2,500. The floods killed 120 in Somalia with 35 missing and some
50,000 displaced, its prime minister said on Thursday. Food stuck Displaced
families on Hafun desperately need aid as they have no clean water, food,
medicine or shelter as most of their homes and possession were swept away.
"Cases of diarrhoea and other diseases are already being reported," the UN's
World Food Programme said in a statement.
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