The disastrous floods that struck the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (and later parts of northern Pakistan) during September 2014 have promoted India’s Central Water Commission (CWC) to improve…
A government statement of 18 January 2015 said that 15 people have died in floods and heavy rain in Bolivia during January. So far, the rainy season (usually October to…
UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs say that 106,000 people from over 19,000 households have been displaced by the floods. This figure has increased from 70,000 earlier this…
One of our contacts in Malawi, journalist Agnes Mizere, was able to visit Mulanje district soon after the recent floods and severe weather that caused so much devastation across the…
Heavy floods in southeast African country of Mozambique have killed at least 34 people amid efforts by rescue workers to reach people stranded on rooftops and over the trees, APA…
Pretoria – The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) will send its members to assist in the flood-stricken areas of the Mocuba District of Zambezia Province, Mozambique. The deployment follows…
Areas of Bolivia and Peru have been seeing heavy rainfall for the last two weeks. Two people died after flooding in Santa Cruz, Bolivia during the first week of January…
Floods in Mozambique are thought to have affected around 100,000 over the last few days as heavy rainfall continues over parts of south eastern Africa, including Malawi, where 48 people…
Peter Mutharika, President of Malawi, yesterday declared a state of disaster for areas of the country affected by the recent floods. In his statement he said that floods have affected…
New flood data provided by JBA Risk Management is now included on digital maps at Landmark Labs. Currently there is a sample dataset available for the town of Goring-by-Sea in…
Following in the wake of Tropical Storm Jangmi (known in the Philippines as Seniang), which killed over 60 people, an area of low pressure (LPA) over Mindanao and Visayas in…
NASA are set to launch the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite on 29 January 2015. As the name suggests, the satellite is equipped to help predict of floods and…
As quoted in local media, Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) says that around 40,000 people have been displaced by the floods which first began in December 2014. So…
A tropical low has swept across central and eastern parts of Australia over the last few days, dumping huge amounts of rain. AccuWeather say that the tropical low has since…
Heavy rainfall in parts of south east Africa over the last 2 weeks has resulted in flooding in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique. As reported earlier this week, as many as…
Further to the current flood disaster in Zimbabwe, Andrew Kunambura of the Financial Gazette writes below that the floods reveal the Zimbabwe government’s lack of preparedness in dealing with disaster.…
