Beledweyne itself became like an ocean,” said shopkeeper Ahmed Nur, whose business was washed away. Nur has been staying with relatives on the edge of the city which, just weeks earlier, had been celebrating the end of the crippling drought. Since mid-March the floods have affected more 460,000 nationwide and killed 22, according to the U.N. humanitarian office (OCHA). The Somali Disaster Management Agency said the floods in Beledweyne alone have caused the displacement of more than 245,000 people. “Recovery from six consecutive seasons of poor rainfall performance will take time,” OCHA said in a May 14 report.