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Long Term Impact (Aftermath)
Since 2008, when the first serious Namibia floods disaster occurred, they have become a devastating, almost annual event that finds most households hardly recovered from the previous flood. The communities in the rural areas of North and Central Namibia were most affected by the floods. Their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence farming and the floods increased livestock and household vulnerability of the farmers.

Water logging and retention due to the floods was associated with the loss of land productivity and soil degradation. The declining quality of soil affected the farming of sorghum and mahangu, their major staple foods which then caused escalated food prices in the region resulting to household food insecurity.

Livestock on the other hand died in large numbers from drowning and the poor prevailing conditions made the remaining susceptible to diseases and parasites such as Lumpy skin disease and the African swine fever thus affecting many livelihoods. Other impacts were on Public Infrastructure like roads, bridges, sewerage system, health facilities, market places and schools that were damaged extensively especially after the follow up floods of 2009 which exacerbated the impact of the 2008 floods.