US forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño

“US forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño”

Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy? The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni Ali’s waist. Her home, five metres from the flooded River Juba in southern Somalia, never stood a chance. There was nowhere to go. Ali’s city of Jilib was under attack. Repeated airstrikes, said the mother of six,…