00:01Good evening and welcome to a new episode of your show, What's Happening.
00:05Today is Friday, 1829-26, 18th September, 2026, and the 7th of Rabi Al-Afir.
00:12Blessed Friday to all of you.
00:14In the last episode, we saw the flash floods and flooding, the devastating floods that
00:18hit Tunisia and swept through Tunisia, specifically the greater Tunis region and the Tunisian
00:22capital, Tunisia.
00:23And we said that, as I always mentioned in previous episodes, floods have always been
00:30a part of what happened.
00:31I talked about the floods in Europe, what happened in Spain, what happened in Valencia, what happened
00:35in Barcelona over the course of two days.
00:38Two days ago, I clearly said that this is the beginning, this is the beginning, this is the
00:43beginning.
00:44We haven't even officially entered the autumn season yet.
00:47We don't enter autumn until September 21st.
00:51Can you imagine this happening in the summer?
00:53This issue wasn't just in Tunisia, it was in many Arab countries, in Tunisia's neighbors,
00:59Algeria and Morocco.
01:01Let me, for example, go with you and see what happened in Morocco.
01:06And specifically in Afriking here in Morocco, I think the area is called Akniyoun in the Tingir
01:12area, where there was very heavy rainfall that caused massive floods, just like you're seeing
01:18in front of you on the screen.
01:20And a white cover of hailstones, meaning a white layer formed on the ground because of
01:27the hail falling.
01:30Let me also move from Morocco to Algeria and show you scenes documenting the thunderstorm.
01:36The very strong thunderstorm and hailstorm that struck and hit Guelma.
01:42And also, let me remind you that these things were recorded yesterday.
01:47This happened yesterday, Thursday.
01:49So, a very large thunderstorm and hailstorm hit Guelma.
01:55In Algeria, it was accompanied by a very heavy fall of hailstorm.
02:00As you can see, those who are following me from Guelma, please write to us in the comments,
02:05let us know.
02:06Let's move from the Maghreb countries and go to another African country, another Arab
02:11African country.
02:12And specifically, let's go from North Africa to Southern Africa.
02:14Let's go a bit down to the South and to Sudan.
02:19But Sudan was in for a different kind of storm.
02:22It was expecting a very large dust storm as well.
02:26As you can see in front of you on the screen, it hit the area of Al-Badol.
02:31It almost hit the Eastern Nile area in Sudan and caused a clear and significant decrease
02:40in horizontal visibility.
02:43People could no longer see in front of them on the roads, unfortunately, and in the streets,
02:48unfortunately.
02:49Let me conclude this episode with a fourth Arab country, which is Yemen.
02:54Severe flash floods hit the Al-Hotah area in Yemen, I believe.
02:58Al-Hotah is located in Shabwa, a governorate in Yemen.
03:02As you can see in front of you on the screen, this happened yesterday afternoon.
03:07Yesterday, Thursday, the heavy rains caused everything on these streets to be swept away
03:13and also caused floodwaters to enter many homes.
03:17That's all for now.
03:18I'm with you, Ahmad al-Durama Ado, the host of the What's Happening show.
03:21Take care.
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