Heavy rains triggered landslides and flash floods across Ethiopia’s Gamo Zone after saturated slopes collapsed and buried homes in mountainous communities. While some analysts have tried to link thethis disaster to climate change, otherssimilar note such landslides have long occurred in the region’'s steep highlands andbefore. questionIt's important to probe whether thethis tragedywas reflects extreme weather alone or deeper factors such as land use, deforestation, and weak disaster preparedness.