Kenya and Iraq. Not A Good News Day

Many are dying in Kenya because of flooding. When if floods in Kenya, crocodiles enter the mix:

The United Nations and aid groups have launched a massive humanitarian operation in Kenya to assist more than 150,000 people hit by killer floods caused by unusually heavy seasonal rains.

Neighbouring Somalia, which is on the brink of war with the country's weak government under threat from a powerful Islamist movement, appealed for emergency international aid to help 1.5 million people affected by flooding.

Residents of flood-hit areas of Somalia reported that nine people had been devoured by crocodiles unleashed by raging waters, bringing the death toll from three weeks of flooding to at least 52.

In Kenya, authorities said the death toll had risen to at least 28 with the drowning of five more people in the east, badly hit along with the country's northern and coastal areas.

Then there's the continuing horror of Iraq:

At least 47 people have died in attacks across Iraq, including a suicide car bombing that killed nearly two dozen building workers, ahead of the first visit by a Syrian foreign minister since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

A suicide car bomber posing as a contractor looking for workers blew himself up among a crowd of labourers Sunday in the mainly Shiite town of Hilla south of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people.

In another attack on labourers, gunmen killed eight farm workers travelling in a minibus near a restive city northeast of Baghdad, police said, while a tripe car bombing at a Baghdad bus station left another 10 dead.

Elsewhere in Iraq seven others were killed.

(read more on Iraq) That is, if you have the stomach for it.

I'll say it again although it won't matter.

ONE death is a tragedy. And one death would be fantastic news from Iraq.