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Heavy rains in Yemen's capital Sanaa
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According to the Houthi rebels, more than 90 people have died in floods in northern Yemen.
140 buildings collapsed there after heavy rains and more than 5,000 others were damaged, said a spokesman for the so-called Humanitarian Council.
More than 24,000 families have been affected in various provinces controlled by the rebels, the spokesman said, according to a report by Al-Masirah television station.
The water masses also damaged the old center of the capital Sanaa and farmland.
A civil war has been raging in Yemen for more than seven years, plunging the poor country on the Arabian Peninsula into a humanitarian catastrophe.
In April, the warring parties negotiated a ceasefire.
This was extended in June and most recently again in August.
There had been no ceasefire in the country since 2016.
The devastation caused by regular flooding during the rainy season, which usually ends in August, has added to the current humanitarian crisis.
The country in the south of the Arabian Peninsula is severely threatened by climate change.
Global warming threatens the country with even greater water shortages, heat waves, sandstorms, landslides, rising sea levels and flooded coasts, among other things.
A week and a half ago, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that flash floods in Marib province had displaced thousands and badly damaged their homes.
IOM helpers then cared for more than 3,400 families.
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