Floods in Africa
Observed periods of heavy rainfall in Tanzania since 14 January, 2016, continue to cause flooding in different regions of Tanzania, including Morogoro, Katavi and Dar es Salaam. On 28 January…
Malawi‘s Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services yesterday 25 January, 2016, issued a five-day weather forecast for heavy rainfall for Central and Southern Regions of the country. Since then…
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – “Free education but nowhere to sleep!” reads a poster scrawled in Swahili in Dar es Salaam’s Jangwani slum, summing up the…
Several periods of heavy rainfall in Tanzania since 14 January 2016 have caused flooding in the regions of Mwanza and Dodoma, according to local media. At least 400 people have…
The National Emergency Operating Center (CENOE: Centro Nacional Operativo de Emergencia) in Mozambique announced last week that 33 people had died as a result of strong wind, heavy rain and…
Floods and heavy rain that began on 06 January 2016, continue to affect the southern African nation of Angola. Earlier this week, flooding, storms and heavy rain were reported in…
The Red Cross say that victims of the floods that struck in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in September 2015 are still displaced, staying in camps at stadiums. In Freetown, an estimated…
In a statement yesterday, the Malawi government confirmed that heavy rains and hailstorms have damaged or destroyed 664 houses in Kasungu District, Central Region. The rain and floods struck between…
Flooding, storms and heavy rain has been reported in several parts of Angola since 06 January 2016, including the capital Luanda, and the provinces of Bié, Moxico and Malanje. At…
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reported in a statement on 04 January 2016 that heavy rains and floods in Kenya during the last 3…
Heavy rain in the Johannesburg area yesterday caused flooding on some major roads to the east of the city. Meanwhile a storm and floods in Limpopo have left at least…
Torrential rain between 11 and 12 December 2015 has caused deadly floods and landslides in eastern and western parts of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Local news reports claim that…
Floods in several areas of Democratic Republic of Congo, including the capital Kinshasa, have left at least 20 people dead since late November. Kinshasa BBC and Reuters are both reporting…
Deforestation was blamed by many for worsening the deadly floods that struck in Malawi in January to February 2015. Under the AFR100 scheme, 10 African countries, including Malawi, aim to…
A scientific forecast of flood-risk in Uguanda last week prompted the Red Cross to take unprecedented pre-disaster humanitarian action. The flood forecast was based on Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS),…
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report of 2014 predicted that the world’s sea levels would rise between 30 to 90 centimetres by 2100. For the Seychelles,…
