Fresh flooding has killed at least 125 people in southern Ethiopia, according to reports today.
Rescuers were airlifted into Ethiopia's remote Omo Valley by helicopter after a river burst its banks, flooding two separate villages and washing away food supplies and animals.
Ethiopians rebuild their destroyed homes after river Dechatu burst its banks and flooded the town in Dire Dawa
The flooding occurred after the Omo River, which is 470 miles long and empties into Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, burst its banks on Sunday.
Rescuers said they had no further details from the area, which is 435 miles south of the capital Addis Ababa, because it is so remote, with few roads or telephones.
Police said the death toll from floods that hit the town of Dire Dawa, 310 miles east of Addis Ababa, on August 6th had climbed to 256. Five people were also killed last Wednesday in northern Ethiopia after a river burst its banks due to heavy rains.
More than 15,000 people around the Horn of Africa nation have been left homeless because of flooding in the past eight days, according to government officials. Several hundred people are still missing, according to UN agencies in the country.
Agencies