The Environment News Service reports that the United Nations World Food Program is trying to deal with the heaviest rainfall in more than thirty years in northeast Africa. The flooding follows a recent drought. Crops and entire villages are submerged. Heaviest damage was in Somalia, including one of its more productive farming areas. Thousands are homeless. Nando.net and Agence France-Presse report at least 100 dead: 57+ dead in Ethiopia, 17 dead in the Sudan, 29 in Kenya. In Kenya, coastal Mombasa was devastated and roads wee washed out through much of the country. The rains are regarded as ENSO-related.--contributed by C. W. Gilbert <blazing@igc.apc.org> Web: http://www.concentric.net/~Blazingt

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