Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The death toll in the flooding that has ravaged South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces as well as neighbouring Mozambique has risen to 69 by Tuesday, as relief efforts continue. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) has donated US$ 1 million towards relief efforts in support of persons displaced by floods in 24 states across Nigeria, the oil giants said in a press statement, issued Thursday and received by PANA here Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The country home of Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan in Otuoke in the oil-rich Bayelsa state has almost been submerged by water following the massive flooding that hit the community and others in the state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Commission has commiserated with the government and people of Nigeria over the devastating floods that have claimed lives and caused substantial damage to property in different parts of the country. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The recent floods in Niger have killed 91 people and caused significant damage, the cabinet director of the Prime Minister of Niger, Aghaly Abdoulkader, said Friday in an address to mark the International Day of disaster risk reduction. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja inaugurated the national committee on flood relief and rehabilitation, vowing that his government would do everything possible to cushion the pain of the flood victims. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will Thursday begin the first-phase of an inspection tour of States affected by the flood disaster in the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria is to spend a total of 17.6 billion naira to mitigate the effects of ''unprecedented'' flooding that has left thousands homeless, swept away farmlands and destroyed roads and bridges, President Goodluck Jonathan announced Tuesday morning (US$1=157 Naira). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 73,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Nigeria's central state of Kogi, according to the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). Full text...

Maga, Cameroon (PANA) - Flooding that has affected six of Cameroon's 11 districts has left 6,000 people displaced in Maga, the most affected district. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - International aid agency Oxfam on Thursday warned that devastating floods in Niger are affecting more than 500,000 people, most of whose basic needs are not being met. Full text...

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Cameroonian President Paul Biya, was due in Garoua, the capital of the Northern Province, Wednesday to console victims of the massive floods that reportedly left 14 people dead and uprooted 20,000 others from their homes, PANA learnt from official sources. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A new wave of floods have hit the north-eastern Nigerian State of Taraba with the Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) registering 13,428 internally displaced people in 30 communities that have been submerged by flood waters. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government Saturday announced the constitution of a special committee to assess the impact of flooding on the people, especially in North Central Nigeria. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – The death toll from the floods that ravaged Niger in the last couple of days has risen to 81, according to a report published here Tuesday by the Niger office of the humanitarian organisation, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA-Niger). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - River Niger, Africa's third longest river after the Nile and the Congo River, threatens 500 communities located along its plains in Nigeria, as its swells to the highest level in 29 years, according to Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Several districts of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, are flooded after heavy rains lashed the city on Friday afternoon. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Embattled Vice-President Joyce Banda has been prevented from visiting and donating relief items to flood victims in the southernmost Lower Shire Valley district of Nsanje, district administration officials and the Vice-President have confirmed. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The death toll from the floods following a downpour that pounded Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, for two consecutive days has risen to 13, the state-run TBC television announced late Wednesday quoting local authorities. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Two more persons drowned in floods here Wednesday, as heavy rain pounded Tanzania’s commercial capital for the second day, bringing the death toll to six, government officials confirmed. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Determined to combat the adverse effect of climate change for sustainable development, food security and well being of the people, the Nigerian government has launched an automated web-based Early Warning System (EWS) which could also be used in dealing with the destructive effects of persistent flooding in the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Politics and environment mixed Friday as Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) clashed over the massive flooding in the country's economic hub of Lagos. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Worried by the spate of flooding and other natural disasters that have caused loss of lives and property in the country, the Nigerian Senate Thursday called for the declaration of a state of emergency in all such affected areas. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Experts have warned that the massive flooding witnessed in Nigeria's economic hub of Lagos on Sunday, after an all-day downpour, will not be a one-off event, hence residents must start taking necessary precautions. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Six people were killed as a result of the heavy rains that fell Wednesday in the Fagge area of Kano State in northern Nigeria, spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Yushau Shuaib confirmed to PANA. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The fifth Regional Consultation on flood preparedness and other natural disasters will hold 1-3 June in Cotonou, on the initiative of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for West and Central Africa (OCHA), according to an official statement. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - After the devastating floods that ravaged part of North-eastern Rwanda last week, the government, supported by its partners, has embarked on rescue operations, with the distribution of domestic utensils to some 330,000 flood-stricken families, official sources in Kigali revealed Monday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A total 339 Rwandan families have been rendered homeless after floods, which devastated parts of north-east of this central African country last week, PANA learnt here Sunday from official sources. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Heavy rains have caused floods which have left at last 38 injured, most of whom are students from a secondary school in north-east Rwanda, official sources said on Thursday evening in the Rwandan capital. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - About 40 people have lost their lives while 6,000 others have been displaced as heavy rains lash South Africa, according to the national disaster management centre. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN, its humanitarian partners and the Government of Be nin, Wednesday launched a joint US$ 47 million emergency appeal to help nearly 8 0 0,000 people in the West African nation, which is experiencing the worst floodin g in a century. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- The flood that has ravaged Togo has affected 82,767 people, leaving 21 dead and 85 wounded, according to a revised death toll by the Togoles e Authorities. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR ) Thursday announced the distribution of 3,000 tents to flood victims in Benin. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN on Tuesday said that over 1. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency said at the weekend it expects to begin an emergency airlift to Benin in the next few days to help an estimated 68 0 ,000 people affected by floods. Full text...

Lomأ©- Togo (PANA) -- The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Frid ay gave Togo 58 million CFAF to support efforts by the government to cushion the effects of the suffering by flood victims, official sources told PANA here Satur d ay. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN said Tuesday that about 1. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Flooding in Nigeria's northern Jigawa state has displace d 1. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) has said that the total number of people affected by floods as at Thursday, stood at 21,194, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has granted Benin a financial aid of 200 million CFAF to support the country in rehabilitating flood victims. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), has donated a US$70,000 international leadership prize to relief efforts in Pakistan, following the devastating and on-going floods, it was announced Monday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Pakistani Ambassador to Libya, Jamil Ahmed Khan, has expressed appreciation to the government and people of Libya for their support a nd assistance to Pakistanis who were recently hit by devastating floods. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Libyan freighter carrying 13 tonnes of flour, 250 equi pped tents, 500 rescue kits and 600 mats, departed Tripoli Wednesday to Nouakcho t t to assist the Mauritanian people hit by the recent floods in the country, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- An aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to people affected by floods in Pakistan on Wednesday left Kenitra, northern Rabat, official sourc e s in the Moroccan capital told PANA. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- More than 20,000 people could be affected by devastating floods along the Niger River, according to weather forecasters in Niger who anno u nced significant rainfall and raised fears of serious flooding in the coming day s . Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- A total of 2,500 low-cost houses are being built in southern Cunene province of Angola to accommodate flood victims of the rains that hit the region over the last three years, the Minister of Environment, Fلtima Jardim, disclosed. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian government has released 1,800 billio n CFA francs to compensate victims of the heavy rains that caused the death of n o fewer than 11 persons and damaged several property in parts of Abidjan, the cap i tal, some days ago, PANA learnt from a reliable source here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- United Nations aid agencies operating in Ethiopia issued a flood alert for parts of Western and South Western regions of the coun t ry following predictions of above normal rains by the state weather agencies, PA N A reported Monday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Twenty-two thousand people living in flooded areas of th e suburbs of Dakar, the Senegalese capital, will be relocated to new homes, the S enegalese Prime Minister, Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye, announced at the end of a min i sterial meeting on government measures to tackle the menace of floods in the cou n try. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The death toll in Sunday's floods in southern Ghana has continued to rise, with the total count reaching 14, following the confirmation of three more deaths in a town in the Central Region, as rescue operations continued on Monday. Full text...