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Ethiopia: Somali flood emergency matrix 23 Apr - 06 May 2005


Apr 23 - May 06 20051

Glide number FL-2005-2-5-000064-ETH

Zone
Woreda
Total Woredea Population and affected population
Affected
Kebeles/ Villages
Aid delivered
Aid needed
Agencies
Comments2
ALL SOMALI REGION Lots of shelter and non-food items sent to DPPB in Dire Dawa from UNICEF (04/05 UNICEF) Reassignment of 2 helicopters + Antonov plane to continue airlifting supplies and identify where support needed. (04/05 Gode Technical Team) DPPB must send its officers to make assessment of affected districts (03/05 OCHA)

UNICEF working with DPPC on a distribution plan to the affected areas in region (05/05 OCHA)
50% of Shelter and non-food sent from UNICEF to DPPB in Dire Dawa stuck there (04/05 UNICEF)

F & NFI items also laying at Gode airport (03/05 Gode Technical Team)
Degehabur Degehabur 77,226 ( AO)3 South of Degehabur road is cut off (04/05, ICRC). Villages between Jarar and Fafan (Burqod, Baka, Sasabane, Hurale) are isolated by the floods and vulnerable to food insecurity (30/04, OWDA). SC UK confirms over 50% livestock dead (03/04, SC UK).

ICRC reports situation is not emergency (04/05, ICRC).
A number of dead reported due to diarrhea and 98 cases in 4 kebeles (05/04, RHB).

Parts of Burkot and Sasabane villages swept away (30/04, OWDA).
Jijiga Jijiga 234,817 (AO)

Situation in Fafaan may be worse than Hartisheikh (04/05, MSF)
3000 nets out of 7500 in Jijiga for distribution say RHB (28/04, CMC4).

DPPC/UNICEF dispatch NFI to Gode ex DD (29/04, UNICEF).
DPPB requests of DPPC NFI for 77,000 affected people (029/04, DPPB).

UNICEF fills DD warehouse with NFI (28/04 - 03/04, UNICEF).
ICRC providing F&NFI5 to 700 hh through ERC. (29/04, ICRC). Bridge b/w Harare and Jijiga now repaired (03/05, OCHA).

Jijiga on alert as rain in Afar expected (06/05 UNICEF)
Gursum 13,336 (AO) 14 affected, 8 seriously (30/04, DPPB). 500 houses destroyed (30/4, DPPB)
Kebribeyah 166,612

Affected: 9000 (28/04, CMC).

6000 IDPs (27/04, UN). 100 hh Households DP in town (27/04, UN).
NFI delivered to HH IDPs & town by UN (04/05, OCHA). MSF will not intervene in K/beyah. (04/05, MSF). MCDO to run TFC, (03/04, UNICEF).

UNICEF to support SFC’s in Hartisheikh, Fafaan, and E. Imey if supplementary food available (04/05, UNICEF).
A number dead; 105 houses & 253 latrines destroyed (27/04, UN).

A number of dead (28/04 SCUK/DPPB).
Korahe Kebridahar 97,629

Affected: 1800 hh (28/04, CMC)
15 villages isolated. & 5 surrounded (28/04, CMC)

Two bridges in Korahe are out of use (28/04 SCUK/DPPB).
DPPB gives tents, ACF extends water sources, one borehole fixed, electricity in town. RHB fears diarrheal diseases b/c of unclean water (28/04, CMC). 200 houses destroyed, 50 hh isolated. A number of dead (27/04, ACF).

50 kebeles cut off, (28/04, DPPC/DPPB).

A number of dead (28/04 SCUK/DPPB).

800 IDPs from different parts of Korahe arrived in Kebridahar (28/04 SCUK/DPPB).
Afder West Imey Roads to West Imi are closed (03/05 SCUK).

No info from kebeles like Burdohoor, Parasibo, Majabe and Kabhanle (03/05 SCUK).

36 villages affected (04/05, SC UK/DPPB).
10 mt maize & NFI from DPPC dispatched to W/E Imey (30/04, DPPB).

Military Helicopters dropped 280 bags of maize, 271 cartoons of biscuits, 8 rolls of plastic sheets and blankets – can cover 10% of needs (03/05 SCUK).

200 qtls food flown to E/W Imey (03/04, WFP).
Recommendation of food for 12,000 (04/05, DPPB assessment).

SF for malnourished vulnerables, PS and blankets for 20,000 people, drugs for livestock and humans, shelter & other NFI, need more agency involvement (04/05 DPPB assessment).
SC UK will assess E./w.Imey (04/05, WFP).

MSF team assessing (04/05, MSF).
Abokoro kebele "very bad" (29/04, DPPB).

A number of dead (04/05, SC UK/DPPB).
Gode Gode 92,981 (AO) F&NFI delivered to DD (25/04, OCHA)

F&NFI to Gode ex DD including helicopters (26/04, DPPB).

Helicopter flies to E/W Imey to deliver some F&NFI (29/04, DPPB).

WFP releasing 60 mt of CSB to affected areas (02/04, WFP).

ICRC delivers farming tools (04/05, WFP).
Urgent need for everything, esp. shelter, drugs, purification kits, budget for costs- see update 30/04 (29/04, DPPB).

UNICEF training on purification techniques ongoing in Gode and will extend to affected areas (04/05, UNICEF).I

Not enough meds for districts (03/04, ZHB).

Serious concerns by agencies about plan to stop flights and helicopters (04/05, UN).

Bottlenecks in distribution of relief items stuck in DD warehouses raise concerns (04/05, UN).

Fuel shortage in Gode. DPPB urgently requests fuel (04/05, DPPB).
Islamic Relief has staff in Elkere and sending a team to East Imey over the weekend (03/05, IR).

RBofA, seeds and vet drugs (04/05, WFP).
First report of flood came out (23/04, OCHA).

Town pumps flooded (29/04, UNICEF).

Sanitation in affected areas is of high concern (29/04, DPPB).

Mary Chilunda, OCHA, arrives to assist in coordination. (03/04, OCHA).

Gode technical team formed to coordinate relief efforts (03/04, OCHA).

SC UK EWS says rainfall expected in highlands. OCHA sends out alert (03/04, OCHA).

DPPB have no fuel to dispatch aid (04/05 UNICEF)
East Imey 61,594

Affected: 27,000 (30/04, DPPB)/ 12,000 affected (04/05/SC UK).
48 villages (04/05, SC UK/DPPB). F&NFI from DPPC (30/04, DPPB).

RHB to supply 1000 nets (28/04, CMC).

2000 qtls of maize allocated (02/05, DPPB).

BP5 biscuits and other items positioned (03/05 SCUK).
RHB will propose mobile health teams to UNICEF (28/04, CMC).

Recommendation of food for 12,000 (04/05, DPPB assessment).
MSF assessing from 06/05 (04/05, MSF).


Islamic Relief will buy High Energy biscuits subject to DPPC approval (02/04, IR).
Lab kebele also badly affected (29/04, DPPB).

A number of dead (04/05, SC UK, DPPB).

River dropped 1 meter (04/05, WFP).

Animal diseases are of concern (04/05, SC UK).
Kelafo 87,800

Affected: 1778 hh (DPPB, 28/04)
84 villages affected (03/04, DPPB). ICRC preliminary report says road to Kelafo cut, but first info is that situation is "OK" (30/04, ICRC). CCM, health (04/05, WFP).

ICRC team to Kelafo (29/04, DPPB).

MSF to assess on weekend (04/05, MSF).
A number of dead (29/04, DPPB).
Mustahil ?


Affected: 25 kebeles (28/04, CMC)

45,000 evacuated (28/04, CMC).
10 kebeles (DPPC from DPPB info, 28/04).

Mustahil and 61 villages affected, 41 flooded (02/05, ICRC). Mustahil town cut off and people stranded w/out food or water (05/04 OWDA)
RHB to supply 2500 nets (28/04, CMC).

F&NFI to be delivered to Mustahil and Kelafo (02/05, WFP).

Some F&NFI delivered to Mustahil, Kelafo, East Imey (02/05, WFP).

2000 qtls of maize allocated (02/05, DPPB).
CCM, health (04/05, WFP).

ICRC will aid 1500 hh in Mustahil and Kelafo (28/04, ICRC).

ICRC team to Mustahil (29/04, DPPB).

MSF to assess on weekend (04/05, MSF).

ICRC unable to assess flooded villages in Kelafo & Mustahil and requests air support (03/05, WFP).
ICRC preliminary report say situ is calm in town and people moved to high ground with belongings. They will assess by boat flooded villages May 1 (30/04, ICRC).
16 kebeles isolated (26/04, DPPB).

A number of dead (02/05, ICRC).

Situation is "alarming" (04/05, DPPB)
Ferfer 34,942 (AO) 16 villages flooded (04/05, DPPB). Blended food & NFI + medicine for humans and livestock Fear that Ferfer may have been forgotten (03/04, SC UK).

A number of dead + significant livestock loss. 305Ha farmland washed away (04/05, DPPB).

Malaria, diarrhea, RTI and skin diseases report (04/05 DPPB)

A number of livestock dead (05/05 DPPB)
Warder Danot 47,172 (Ao) Lack of rain reported and shortage of water (02/04, DPPB).



Footnotes

1 To be updated daily. User should keep all matrices together to track changes as information will change daily in each matrix

2 Human/ Livestock deaths, material destroyed, etc.

3 (AO)- Affected Unknown

4 Crisis Management Committee

5 Food and Non Food Items

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