The storm has displaced nearly 12 000 people and destroyed dozens of homes.

The cyclone formed in the Gulf of Aden and made landfall in Somaliland and Puntland, where last week troops were involved in deadly clashes.

Norwegian Refugee Council regional director Nigel Tricks says its the worst storm to hit the region in years.

Sixteen people are known to have died in Somaliland where poor roads and communications prevent the authorities from getting full details.

Two people had died in Puntland.

The 40 fisherman unaccounted for were at sea when the storm struck.

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For the second successive year the country’s the worst affected by conflict displacement.

The Norwegian Refugee Council’s Ulrika Blom describes what’s happening  in the DRC as a mega crisis.

She says it’s a race against time to save the four million people displaced in the DRC and the seven million struggling to feed themselves.

New fighting between militias, the renewal of existing battles  and the delay in elections is displacing more people in the DRC than in Syria, Yemen or Iraq.

The Norwegian body’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre says 5 500 people have fled their homes in the DRC every day this year.

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