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At a Glance Tropical Cyclone Sagar left 16 dead after pounding parts of the Middle East and eastern Africa.

It has become the strongest tropical storm ever recorded in Somalia.

At least 16 people died as Tropical Cyclone Sagar pounded the Middle East and eastern Africa over the weekend, making history as the strongest tropical storm ever recorded in Somalia.

The deadly storm destroyed the homes of at least 80 families and left nearly 1,800 displaced , director general of Somalia’s Ministry of Planning and National Development Abdirashed Ibrahim reported via Twitter.

An elderly woman was killed near Aden, Yemen, when her house caught fire due to Sagar, according to the Associated Press.

The emergency center of Yemen's Health Ministry reported that flash flooding caused sewage to pour into the streets of the city of Aden.

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In western Somalia, an undisclosed number of people were reported missing in Bulaxaar , according to ReliefWeb. Communication was disrupted in the Lughaya district after the storm destroyed a telecommunication tower and at least 15 shelters were destroyed in the Ceel Sheekh village.

In addition to flash flooding, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says the heavy rains could cause favorable breeding conditions for desert locusts, according to the Associated Press.

"Monitoring tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden is a very important part of this strategy because historically they have been the origin or trigger of Desert Locust plagues," according to Keith Cressman, the Senior Locust Forecasting Officer at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Ahead of the storm, researchers at the UK Met Office also warned that the rainfall could lead to cholera infections .

Sagar struck at around noon local time Saturday about 100 miles southeast of the city of Djibouti, along the flat, arid coastal plain of far western Somalia. As Sagar tracked inland, satellite imagery indicated widespread rains across western Somalia, the nation of Djibouti, and far northeast Ethiopia as Sagar tracked inland.