Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) o n Thursday donated 75 million CFA francs to the Senegalese government to assist t he country's flood victims. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium(PANA) -- The European Union (EU) has released 3 million euros i n favour of people affected by floods in West Africa, according to a communiquأ© of the European Commission services issued here Thursday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN is helping Kenya prepare to mitigate the impact of potentially-lethal torrential rains anticipated in the last three months of the y ear due to the El Nino weather pattern. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The heavy rains which fell on the Gambian capital, Banju l, on Thursday have left many parts of the city streets flooded, according to a P ANA Correspondent here. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- About 159 people have been killed and more than 600,000 ot hers affected by floods which occured in June in West Africa, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Floods, following heavy rains in the West Afr ican state of Burkina Faso, have claimed five lives and destroyed properties, th e Burkinabe Prime Minister, Mr. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- About 300 families in Imusho, in the Western Province of Zambia, have been displaced by a flood that occurred after the Kwando River in n eighbouring Angola burst its banks. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- An ECOWAS delegation has arrived in Cotonou to conduct a “rapid assessment'' of the devastation caused by flooding in parts of the country, following torrential rains that affe cted more than half of the country’s 77 communities. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius has donated US$ 500,000 to the Indian g overnment to assist in the reconstruction process in the State of Bihar, ravaged by floods in 2008, Mauritian Foreign Minister Arvin Boolell told PANA here Thurs d ay. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The Beninese government has declared a state of emergency in dealing with floods caused by torrential rains over the country, especially in the southern part of the country, according to a statement release d Tuesday by the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The death toll in floods that swept through the west of th e Ghanaian capital, Accra, on Friday night has risen to seven, police confirmed t o PANA on Sunday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The United Nations and its agencies are rushing to provide urgent assistance to victims of heavy flooding, which has claimed over 150 lives so far in Angola, Namibia, Madagascar and Zambia. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescen t (IFRC) has said that flooding in north eastern Namibia and some parts of Zambi a are set to worsen because of fresh rains in Angola and the Democratic Republic o f Congo (DRC). Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Floods across southern Africa, caused by extreme rainfall, have brought about massive damage to land and property and displaced thousands o f people, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has declared a n emergency in flooded areas in the northern and north eastern parts of the country, appealing for international hel p to feed hundreds of thousands of flood victims. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia is on flood alert following incessant rains in mostly the northern and eastern parts of the country, which have raised the spectre of yet another season of flooding and poor harvests. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Much of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Del gado has been experiencing heavy rains, leading to flooding in the provincial ca p ital, Pemba, reported Wednesday's issue of the Maputo daily, Noticias. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican government's relief agency, the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC), has launched an operation to search for any people who may be stranded by rising flood waters in the Pungue valley in the central province of Sofala. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The weather department in Zimbabwe said Friday some ar eas of the country were expected to be flooded due to heavy rains. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- As the Zambezi river continues to rise, people livin g in flood prone areas are leaving their homes and seeking higher grounds, accor d ing to Mozambique's relief agency, the National Disasters Management Institute ( I NGC). Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The flood on the Pungue river, in the central Mozamb ican province of Sofala, is worsening, with new areas inundated in Dondo and Nha m atanda districts, reported the Monday issue of the Maputo daily, Noticias. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Sea swells have flooded parts of the Pacific Rim island na tion of Papua New Guinea, displacing no fewer than 75,300 people, while an estim a ted 416 houses were destroyed, United Nations said Tuesday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Several districts in eastern and West Nile Uganda are e xperiencing another round of floods which killed people, and displaced hundreds f rom their villages and ravaged crops, exactly one year after a similar incident s truck the area. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Eleven people lost their lives while several houses were destroyed when floods ravaged the province of Nador, North-eastern Morocco, in t he early hours of Friday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Eleven people lost their lives while several houses were destroyed when floods ravaged the province of Nador, North-eastern Morocco, in t he early hours of Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The head of the West African Office of the UN Bureau for the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs (BCHA), Hervé Ludovic De LyseicaLe , Monday pleaded for the setting up of a regional fund and a humanitarian storeho u se to cope with the natural catastrophes in the region. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The Beninese government has donated 400 50-kilogramme bags of maize, 5,000 mosquito nets and cash to the tune of 100 million FCFA to Togo to enable the neighbouring country cushion the effects of the severe floods which caused extensive damage to the west African country. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France would give emergency aid to flood victims in Seneg al as soon as it had accurate assessment of their needs, the deputy spokesman of the French ministry of foreign affairs, Frédéric Desagneaux, said in Paris on Fr i day. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- International aid is urgently needed to reduce the risk to millions of lives in danger across West Africa due to the effects of flooding, the United Nations health agency warned today. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The ECOWAS Commission has donated FCFA 50 million to the Togolese government to enable it attend to the humanitarian crisis arising from the floods that affected the country recently, according to a commission press s t atement, issued recently in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal capital, and received here b y PANA. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- United Nations relief officials warned on Thursday that heavy rains across West Africa have brought renewed flooding to the region, threatening the homes and livelihoods of tens of thousands of people and jeopardizing the already fragile food security situation. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- ECOWAS is sending its emergency response team to Togo to evaluate the damage caused by devastating floods that have displaced many people and washed away roads and bridges, the ECOWAS Commission said in a statement made available to PANA here Friday. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Floods have killed a total of 42 people and displaced hundreds of families since the ravaging started in January this year, officials said here Tuesday, warning that more flooding was expected in the flood ravaged n orthern and eastern parts of the country. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The impact of this year's floods in the Zambezi Vall ey, Mozambique, would have been worse, if the Cahora Bassa dam did not exist, ac c ording to Henriques Silva, an environmental and engineering specialist with the d am operating company, Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB). Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- One of the floodgates of the Kariba dam, on the Zamb ia/Zimbabwe border, which is due to be opened this weekend, will likely worsen t h e current flooding in the Zambezi Valley in central Mozambique. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Six people have been confirmed dead in Lower Shire V alley district of Chikwawa, Malawi as President Bingu wa Mutharika Sunday made a n aerial tour of the flood-prone area where close to 50, 000 people have been dis p laced or have their houses and crop fields destroyed by raging floods. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique's National Emergency Operational Centre (CENOE) Friday launched an operation named "Active Reconnaissance" to assist pe o ple cut off by the rising waters from the Zambezi river in Manica and Tete provi n ces. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Over 70, 000 people have been displaced or have their crop fields destroyed as floods continue to wreck havoc in most parts of Malawi, a senior government official said Wednesday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Over 20,000 people have been displaced by heavy floo ds in Malawi's southern Lower Shire Valley district of Nsanje on the border with Mozambique, a senior government official said Monday "It has been raining non-stop since the beginning of the year," said Nsanje Di strict Commissioner Toby Solomoni. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Executive Secretary of the Southern African Deve lopment Community (SADC), Tomaz Salomao, Wednesday called for an improved early w arning system among countries who share river basins, in order to mitigate the i m pact of flooding. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican government has no intention of making an international appeal for assistance to cope with the current floods in the country, unless the situation deteriorates dramatically, the state-run news agency, AIM, reported. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Thousands of Malawians have been rendered homeless b y rampaging floods which have also destroyed crops, officials told PANA here Fri d ay. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- At least four people have died so far in the floods on the Pungue and Buzi rivers in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, according to a report in Wednesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The flooding of the Pungue river has cut off the main road from the central Mozambican port of Beira to Zimbabwe, Mozambique's state-run news agency, AIM, reported. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- At least 150 families have been driven from their homes by flooding along the Pungoe river in Dondo and Nhamatanda districts, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, the state-run news agency, AIM, reported. Full text...

Chikwawa- Malawi (PANA) -- Continuous heavy rains, accompanied by hail-storm, hav e destroyed about 500 houses and displaced over 2,000 people in the flood-prone s outhern Lower Shire Valley district of Chikwawa, some 50 kilometres west of the c ommercial capital, Blantyre. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) – August brought rains for th-e possible development of crops in agricultural zones and the growing of herbaceous vegetation in pastoral zones, but the rains also caused floods in all Sahelian countries. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Upper East Region, which is one of the worst affected areas of floods that have wrecked havoc in Ghana, is set to lose some 70 per cent of its crops, giving rise to fears that it could be stared in the face by serious food shortages. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Torrential rains which have been pounding the northern part of Togo for a week now have left more than 10 people dead in the prefecture of Kpendjal, some 600 km north of Lome, official sources affirmed in Lome. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Beefing up Ethiopia's capacity to better respond to the needs of communities affected by natural disasters, the US Friday donated US$825,354 worth of equipment that could potentially rescue 300,000 people in flood-prone areas. Full text...