http://www.africa.upenn.edu/eue_web/awash0999.htm "Afar Region – Awash River Floods Rapid Assessment Mission: 7 – 10 September, 1999"] UNDP Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia report, dated June 1996 (accessed 13 January 2009) The Awash flooded again 16 August 2006, displacing 15,000 people and damaging 400 hectares planted in cotton, corn, onions and sesame. [