An aerial view shows a submerged village in Gaarsen, Tana River district, about 500 kilometres southwest of Nairobi, taken 22 December 2006 where a tleast 18,000 people have been displaced by flooding. The World Food Programme has started distributing relief supplies by helicopter since some of the marooned villages are now completely inaccessible by road and victims increasingly prone to disease and crocodile and snake attacks with little or no food, clean water and no sanitation. AFP PHOTO POOL/TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
