Areas Visited            

Mustahil Warada , Somali Region

Dates of Field Visit                         

11-12 May 2003

Mission Members    

Ahmed Shek Hassen Budul & Abdi Hassen Shide

Reviewed by             

Mukhtar Shek Omer

Objectives of Field Visit                

To asses the situation and accessibility of Mustahil Warada

The teem has visited the first time after Shabele river broke its banks and Mustahil town become completely inaccessible.

Mission findings include:

• 21 villages and the town flooded

• 12 villages are inaccessible and the Population living in this villages could not manage to scape and still stranded by floods and need emergence help
  (Budul, Fagug, Jogi, Godcaro, Ayoole, Gof, Kabhane, Anole Darbale, Bacad, Mustahi and Baradon) 

• 7 people dead in the last three days  3 of them eaten by crocodiles while escaping the floods.

• All people in the flooded areas were displaced and are now concentrated on the foothills with no proper shelter, food and water.

• One clinic and one school in the town destroyed

• About 120 ha of farming land flooded and all crops destroyed.

• Most of the dry latrine in Mustahil were destroyed by the floods and the fesses  mixed in to the water

• There are epidemic diarrhoea and it could be changed to cholera 

• The situation will be critical in the next three weeks

Immediate Recommendations

• Urgent supply of shelter materials (plastic sheets, blankets, cooking utensils) to all the affected population.

• Provision of sufficient health drugs to the affected population

• Provision of high energy biscuits (BP5) to the most vulnerable groups focusing on children and women

• Helicopter must be made available to deliver emergency supplies that are stranded

• The helicopter will be also used to evacuate women and children who are stranded in some villages in Mustahil woreda.

• Seeds for the farmers after the flood is recede.

Ogaden Welfare and Development Association (OWDA) Gode Sub-office