Urgent action is needed to protect Somalia from a potentially unprecedented weather event, experts warn

Cardiff University leads a multidisciplinary research collaboration representing academia and multiple nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to explore Somalia's 2023 El Niño floods and lessons learned from a similar event in 1997. The research, which has yet to undergo peer review, was released as a preprint on Earth ArXiv because academics believe the situation ahead of this year's Deyr season—the secondary, shorter rainy season in the Horn of Africa, typically running from October to December—could be much more serious, and the findings have urgent implications for planning now.