Somalia - El Niño flood risk in displacement sites (September 2026)

Country: Somalia Source: IMPACT Initiatives Please refer to the attached file. Key message Despite widespread and recurrent flooding, evacuations remained limited: 83% of sites flooded at least once between 2023 and 2025, while only 15% to 21% of flooded sites reported evacuations in any given year. 98% of the assessed sites reported living in a buul or transitional shelter. These are structures that flooding might destroy rather than merely dampen. Context Somalia's 2023 Deyr floods affected 2.