The United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) on Thursday said that Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have affected nearly one million people in East Africa.
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The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph Utsev, has cautioned that 148 Local Government Areas (LGAs) across 31…
In the severely-hit Orenburg Region, more than 6,100 people have been evacuated from the flooded areas and a total of 33 temporary accommodation centers deployed for 33,000 people, the ministry said.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has alerted Nigerians to expect flood in nine states as Cameroon began the release of water from its Lagdo Dam.
Several houses in Guatemala City were swept away by the strong current of a river, following heavy rain, killing at least six people, authorities said on Tuesday.
Student hostels, lecture halls and electronic learning devices have been submerged by water as a result of the flood which wreaked havoc on Metallurgical Training Institute (MTI) Onitsha, Anambra.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has advocated for the construction of buffer dams to curtail the excessive flooding across the country.
ASHENEWS reports that a heavy downpour, which lasted about three hours in the earlier hours of Saturday, killed at least four people, and submerged dozens of houses in Dakingari town of Suru local government area of Kebbi state.
The mountains and deserts of Southern California are expected to see the highest risk for dangerous, even deadly, flash flooding from heavy rain due to Hurricane Hilary from Saturday through Monday, according to a climate scientist.
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, has distributed inputs to 180 livestock farmers in Kaduna who were affected by flood in 2022.