Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- As the ongoing rains raise the water level of Lake Tana, there are concerns that more people in the surrounding districts of northwestern Ethiopia could be displaced, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) warned here Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Government and humanitarian partners in Ethiopia have launched a joint flood contingency plan seeking US$ 21 million to address relief and recovery needs for an estimated 324,000 beneficiaries. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Current rainfall reports combined with elevated ground saturation and high water levels in Ethiopia's rivers and dams indicate that flood prone areas are at increased risk of flooding in the coming months, a UN agency warned Tuesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Local and international partners have donated about US$15 million in humanitarian assistance for victims of the Zambezi floods and Cyclone Favio that hit parts of Mozambique recently, an official statement said here Tuesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The UN has so far mobilised US$7. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Authorities in Zimbabwe Friday issued a flood alert, and put national rescue services on standby as Cyclone Favio approached the country from neighbouring Mozambique. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said its volunteers were standing by to assist Mozambique hit by flood-causing cyclone, if a request is made. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco is to send humanitarian aid to Burundi, hit by severe floods that have damaged infrastructure, houses and crops in the country, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement here. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Small boats have been used to rescue some 300 people trapped by floods on the Zambezi river in the Tambara district of the central Mozambican province of Manica, national news agency, AIM, reported Saturday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Flooding in the Zambezi basin in central Mozambique is worsening rapidly, and the National Water Board (DNA) on Saturday once again urged anyone still living near the banks of the Zambezi to vacate to higher ground. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Flash floods have swept through whole villages in the northern border district of Karonga, leaving thousands of people homeless, an official said. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- At least two children have been killed in Mozambique's second largest city Beira, flooded by heavy rains accompanied by a devastating storm from Monday night, national news agency, AIM, reported Wednesday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN has launched an appeal for US$18 million to assist hundreds of thousands of people affected by severe floods in Somalia. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least five people- four women and a child- have been confirmed dead following heavy flooding in the southern Lower Shire valley district of Chikwakwa, a senior district official confirmed late Tuesday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Two middle aged women are missing, and feared dead, in floods after Mwanza river burst its banks in Malawi's southern Lower Shire Valley District of Chikwakwa, a district official said Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative to Somalia, Francois Lonseny Fall, has called on the international community to urgently assist Somali communities affected by flood. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Monday launched air operations to provide humanitarian assistance to more than one million flood victims in Kenya and Somalia, according to a UN statement here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- For the second time in three months relief agencies in Ethiopia are racing to rescue thousands of flood-affected people in the country's south-eastern Somali Region, where at least 60 persons drowned early this week. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- As water dries up in Ethiopia's regions devastated by flash floods last month, humanitarian partners have generously responded to assist the affected population, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) here said Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Floods from seasonal downpours continue to be reported across Ethiopia with 136,528 people displaced, humanitarian agencies operating in the country said Monday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) – More than 17,000 people hav-e been made homeless following heavy rains recently in parts of Niger, a government source said here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- New floods continue to be reported across Ethiopia as heavy seasonal rains prevail. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Overwhelmed by the unprecedented flooding in a generation, Ethiopian authorities Friday appealed to the international community for US$22 million to assist in the rehabilitation of damaged infrastructure. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday it has provided 37. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- After enduring two weeks of devastating flash floods that claimed some 600 lives, washed away thousands of shelters and killed herds of livestock, Ethiopians are not out of the woods yet, according to forecasts by the National Meteorological Agency. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) Commission Monday donated US$100,000 to Ethiopia to assist flash floods victims in the eastern city of Dire Dawa and other parts of the country. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Libyan cargo flight with emergency supplies left the International Maatigua Airport, in the Tripoli suburb Friday, for Ethiopia, officials said here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Six people died and scores of livestock were swept downstream when a river burst its banks in Laisamis, northern Kenya Tuesday, the media reported Wednesday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- At least one person has died and nine others injured in floods from heavy rains in the past two days in Mauritania's Boghé district, some 300-km south-east of the nation's capital Nouakchott, the national news agency has reported. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Belgian Development Cooperation Minister Armand de Decker has sent a message of support to the DR Congolese government following recent floods caused by a heavy rainfall in Kinshasa, the country's capital. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- A young boy has drowned following floods that have displaced several villagers in the northern Malawi border district of Karonga, district administration officials have said. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- At least 11 people have died from serious storms and flooding in Mozambique's central province of Sofala in the last four months, national news agency, AIM, reported Saturday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) – Three people, one of the-m a police officer, have been confirmed dead after fast flowing rivers swept them away in separate incidents in the flood-hit southern Malawi resort district of Mangochi, police and government officials said Friday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Over 2,000 people were left homeless in Malawi's central lakeshore district of Salima following heavy rains Tuesday that induced flash-floods, a government official said here Thursday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Flush floods have rendered 6,000 people homeless, destroyed crop fields, infrastructure and cut off a major road link in Malawi's southern resort district of Mangochi, some 200-km east of Blantyre, a government official said Wednesday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Floods swept away more than 80 houses and rendered over 3,800 families homeless in several residential areas of Inkisi town in DR Congo's Lower-Congo province, 70 km west of Kinshasa, the United Nations owned radio Okapi reported Wednesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Zambezi river has again risen past flood alert level on its lower reaches, Mozambique's National Water Board (DNA) has warned. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- More than 27,000 people have been affected by storms and flooding that have hit parts of Mozambique since the start of this year, according to the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC). Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Some 2,000 people threatened by flood have been evacuated from the lower Zambezi valley in central Mozambique, national news agency, AIM reported Monday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The water level in Mozambique's largest river, the Zambezi, is dropping along its entire length, with the exception of Marromeu District which is near the river's mouth. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The flood on the Zambezi river in central Mozambique worsened over the weekend, and the authorities have continued to urge people living in flood-prone areas to move to higher ground. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The level of Mozambique's largest river, the Zambezi, has continued to rise, and flooding has therefore worsened in the area of Caia, in Sofala province. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Weather experts in Zimbabwe said Monday the country no longer faced threats of flooding, which hit some parts of the country last week. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Flood from Mozambique's Mutamba river, which bursts its bank, has cut off the southern city of Inhambane from the rest of the country, national news agency, AIM reported Monday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Floods, caused by incessant rains, have affected several areas of Zimbabwe but claimed no casualties, authorities said here Saturday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe Thursday started emergency preparations for floods after weather experts warned incessant heavy rains were expected in the country in the coming days. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Chronic floods in the southern Malawi's Chikwawa District, some 50-km south of the commercial capital of Blantyre, have displaced over 40,000 people and destroyed some 3,700 hectares of crops, a senior official said Tuesday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least one person has been confirmed dead and over 1,000 others displaced by floods that have swept the southern Lower Shire Valley over the past few days, official sources said here Monday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Flooding from heavy rains and rainstorm, have displaced hundreds of villagers in Malawi's southern Lower Shire Valley district of Nsanje and the southern Lake-shore district of Mangochi, officials said Saturday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Torrential rains caused heavy floods Tuesday in M'bout town about 120 km north-eat of Kaédi, the Gorgol regional capital in the Senegal River valley, the Mauritanian News Agency reported Wednesday. Full text...