Flooding has killed more than 2,000 people in parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya, leaving 210,000 homeless. Actually casualties are likely to be even higher but many villages remain inundated or at least isolated by high waters. A malaria outbreak is beginning, thanks to the breeding of mosquitoes in flooded areas. The flooding has also destroyed much of the sorghum crop. The Kenyan and Ethiopian governments have begun relief operations, but fighting has resumed in Somalia where international relief operations are trying to cope with the absence of a central government. --after Nando.net <http://www.nando.net> and Associated Press on 16 and 17 November.