Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Sunday released a preliminary report on what it called the “devastating” effect of floods in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 States, saying 77, 460 people have been displaced in 50 local governments affected by the deluge. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The heavy downpour over several consecutive weeks in many parts of Kenya, southern Somalia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda are expected to continue for the next week with the risk of flooding, says a new report released Friday by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net), one of the leading providers of early warning and analysis on food insecurity. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 50,680 households, with about 271,000 people, have been displaced by floods across Kenya, according to the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), and this figure is expected to increase to 280,000 by 14 May, based on projections of continued rainfall in flood-prone areas. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Floods have displaced at least 244,407 people in 45,219 households across Kenya, including more than 23,000 displaced over the last week, as several parts of the country continue to receive heavy rainfall, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Activities (UNOCHA) said Thursday. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government will release 425,082,000 CFA franc to assist the victim of the recent floods that affected nine communes in the country, official sources told PANA on Friday. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Botswana’s National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has reported over 180 households affected by floods caused by heavy rains recorded across the country this week. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Botswana’s meteorological services has issued a floods alert, saying the country’s Gantsi district in the western part bordering Namibia could be affected. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - About 24 persons may have been killed and 72 others injured as heavy floods, caused by torrential rains, swept through parts of Egypt, local newspapers reported Sunday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) says 29 persons have been killed in 99 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 30 states of Nigeria already affected by flood. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) on Monday issued an alert of possible flooding in 11 of the country's 36 States between August and November. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Following intense rainfall and rising water level of the River Niger in Burkina Faso and Niger Republic, the Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday advised communities along the river to evacuate immediately to safer ground over the likelihood of floods that may occur at any moment. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Thursday said torrential rains and floods have killed over 70 people and left thousands without shelter, the worst hit states being North Darfur in the far West and Kasala, near the borders with Ethiopia and Eritrea. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - With conflicts in the Middle East and Africa driving unprecedented Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The floods caused by recent heavy rainfalls in South Central Somalia Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Efforts have been ramped up recently to mitigate the impact of floods Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Scores of people have been killed by flash floods which hit Narok town, 150 km outside Nairobi, destroying houses, cars and other property, rescue workers and government officials said Wednesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday said Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Heavy rains and landslides have caused the collapse of houses in several Tunisian regions, near the border with Algeria, sources close to the services of the Tunisian civil protection said on Saturday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has announced the delivery Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN agencies joined the wider humanitarian community and non-governmental organizations in Mozambique to launch on Friday a US$30.1 million response and recovery proposal to meet the needs of more than 160,000 people affected by hard-hitting floods in the Zambezia Province of central Mozambique. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - A total of 415 schools have been affected by the severe flooding ravaging parts of Malawi, with 234 either having their roofs blown off or submerged, Vice President Saulos Chilima said on Sunday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN agencies are gearing up for relief efforts in Malawi and neighbouring Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The death toll in Malawi's raging floods has climbed to 176 with hundreds others still missing especially in the southern Lower Shire Valley, Vice President Saulos Chilima confirmed Friday in Blantyre. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi President Peter Mutharika has declared ten of the country's 28 districts 'disaster areas' following the devastating flood that has engulfed almost half of the southern African country. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Twelve more people have been killed across Malawi after they were washed away by flood, PANA reported Thursday. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi President Peter Mutharika has declared 10 of the country's 28 districts 'disaster areas' following devastating floods that have engulfed almost half of the southern African country. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - At least eight people were killed Tuesday in the southern district of Mulanje, about 100 km south of Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, after flash floods washed them away their homes, a district administration official has confirmed. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) - The Togolese government has acquired a topographic map to enhance its flood management ability for the capital city, Lomé, and its surroundings, PANA learnt Monday from official sources. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan ( PANA ) - Seventeen people were killed and thousands rendered homeless in the Sudanese national capital, Khartoum, following heavy rains and floods that devastated vast areas of the city since the weekend, officials said Tuesday. Full text...

Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - The French Development Agency (FDA) has granted Cameroon a 52.4b CFA francs loan with which to fight against floods in Yaounde, the Cameroonian capital. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Some 400 households in Bamako, the Malian capital, have been affected by the heavy rains which fell here Monday, according to a communique issued by the Malian ministry of Health and Public Hygiene. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Heavy floods have swept to death a four-year-old girl and destroyed several houses and crop fields in Malawi's northern border district of Karonga. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - At least 51 persons were killed Sunday night by flash flood, triggered by heavy rains in the northern suburbs of the capital city, Bujumbura, according to the provisional death toll released Monday by the Burundian Ministry of Public Security. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Relief efforts in Somalia’s flooded Puntland region came to a halt Friday after Midigar Bridge, 60 km east of the regional capital Garowe, collapsed in torrential rains, Ethiopia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Following days of heavy storm and flooding this week in Somalia’s Puntland region, the Special Representative of the African Union Commission Chairperson for Somalia, Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif, said Friday that he was closely monitoring the situation in which at least 300 people are feared to have lost their lives. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Citing the saturation of soil moisture, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency Thursday warned of imminent flooding in four States in northern Nigeria -- Bauchi, Kaduna, Plateau and Gombe. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The body of a United Nations/African Union peacekeeper who went missing while assisting flood victims has been recovered in Darfur, Sudan, the UN said in a statement here on Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Flood has displaced 105,700 people so far this year in three Nigerian northern states of Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba, according to Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Muhammed Sani Sidi. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN and its partners in Sudan are providing emergency support for hundreds of thousands of people affected by flooding since the start of August, the world body said on Tuesday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Committee of the Red Crescent on Saturday said humanitarian and emergency aid assistance has now reached hundreds of people affected by recent floods in and outside Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Humanitarian and international organizations Thursday said 33 people were killed and more than 140,000 others affected by recent rains and flash floods in the Sudan, with Khartoum, the capital, sustaining most of the damages. Full text...

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...