Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, could be engulfed by floods from the Atlantic Ocean, the country's news agency reported Thursday, quoting the director of the West African office of the International Union of Nature Conservation, Ibrahim Thiaw. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Floods Sunday swept away 50 people and several others were reported missing in Jalingo, the capital of Nigeria's northern state of Taraba, the local press reported Monday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Cotonou, the capital of the West African nation Benin, needs 200 billion FCFA to combat floods that affect the city during the annual rainy season, a city council official said here Wednesday. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Last Saturday night's torrential rains killed at least seven persons, swept away hundreds of huts and displaced thousands of peasants from their devastated farmlands in south-western Somalia'a Boaale district of middle Juba region. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Floods have disrupted relief efforts in Ethiopia's south-eastern Somali Region with continued population displacement while trucks loaded with relief items have been stuck on the sodden roads for nearly three weeks, a UN relief agency reported Monday. Full text...

Nyanza- Kenya (PANA) -- At least four persons were killed and hundreds left homeless in western Kenya after flash floods caused by torrential rains destroyed their homes last weekend, the national disaster office confirmed here Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- While Ethiopian government officials re- assess the impact of recent floods in the south-eastern Somali region, relief agencies estimate the number of victims as ranging from 23,000 to more than 100,000. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Though the number of dead and missing in eastern Ethiopia's Somali Region continues to rise following the devastating floods on 23 April 2005, humanitarian agencies say uncertainty remains on the exact number of the victims. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least five people have been confirmed dead following overnight torrential rains and floods last Sunday in the capital of the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland, Hergeisa. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Some 10,000 Angolans have been rendered homeless, and 608 houses destroyed in Dondo by flooding from the Kapakala river, in the northern province of Kwanza-Norte, official sources said Monday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's Meteorological Services Department Thursday warned that incessant rains in most parts of the country had raised the prospects of floods in some areas. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Water management boards in central Mozambique have launched an alert to all residents in the main river valleys to leave low-lying areas and seek higher ground, to avoid possible flooding, reports Tuesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Floods have destroyed hundreds of hectares of crop fields in the southern Malawi district of Zomba, east of Blantyre, raising a spectre of food shortage, an MP from the district reported here Monday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The Malawi meteorological department Friday said an alert issued by the government over potential flooding in the Lower Shire Valley was not connected to the tidal waves that followed an earthquake in the Indian Ocean. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The Malawi government has warned people living in the southern Lower Shire Valley to be "on guard" and consider moving upland following threats of "extensive flooding" that could occur in "the next few days". Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Western and Eastern Cape Provinces have been hit by major rains over the past 48 hours, flooding towns, cutting power supplies and washing away roads. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are likely to experience heavy flooding following the citing of a tropical cyclone off the Somali coast in the northern Indian Ocean, UN weather experts warned here Friday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- More than 10,000 people in western Uganda's Runkugiri district have been rendered homeless by floods after a river in the area burst its banks, district officials said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Global Environment Facility (GEF) at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is funding a multimillion- dollar two-year project to reduce the impact of flooding on the lower basin of the Limpopo River. Full text...

Pretoria- South Africa (PANA) -- Exiled Haitian former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Thursday expressed his profound sympathy with families affected by hurricane-induced flooding that has killed more than 1,000 people in his country. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Floods following torrential rains in the last two days have killed four people and destroyed houses in several Somali towns, including the capital Mogadishu and Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Floods have devastated crops on 100 hectares of land and damaged several houses in Kunuwarey district of Lower Shabelle region, about 400 km from Mogadishu, the Somali capital. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan government plans to construct more dams to help control raging floods in the disaster prone areas of Nyando and Budalangi in Western Kenya. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The commander of the civil protection in Berkane, Morocco, Lt. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Thousands of residents in Dondo and Nhamatanda districts of Mozambique's central province of Sofala have seen their homes inundated by flood water from the Pungue river, which burst its banks at the weekend, national news agency, AIM reported Tuesday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A government weather agency in Zimbabwe warned of floods in some areas of the country, after days of incessant heavy rains. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Water management boards in the southern and central regions of Mozambique are calling on people living near the banks of the Maputo, Incomati, Limpopo and Buzi rivers to take the necessary precautions follwing the swelling of water levels due to persistent heavy rains in the areas and in neighbouring countries. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Tambara district in central Mozambican province of Manica has been cut off from the rest of the province by rain-induced floods on the Muira River, a tributary of the Zambezi, national news agency, AIM reported Wednesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- More than two years after the 2001 Zambezi valley floods in Mozambique, some of the victims are still living in miserable conditions in resettlement centres, according to the Parliamentary Social Affairs Commission. Full text...

Rabat- Maroc (PANA) -- Flash floods in northern Morocco have killed 13 persons while five are reported missing, says a government statement issued here Friday, updating the previous death toll of nine. Full text...

Rabat- Maroc (PANA) -- Flash floods from downpour that hit Northern Morocco early this week left nine persons dead and five others missing, official confirmed here Thursday in an update on the casualties from the disaster Authorities in the Rift valley province of Al Hoceima had reported four deaths from the heavy flooding in the area on Monday and Tuesday. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Floods from torrential rains pouring in the Gabonese capital for almost a week, have killed three children and caused serious damage to the city's industrial zone, industry sources said Thursday. Full text...

Yaoundé- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Cameroonian Red Cross will next week launch a programme to assist flood victims in the Magha district, north-west of the country, officials said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's National disaster management committee is working on a long-term plan to find a lasting solution to perennial flood problems in some parts of the country, a Red Cross official said in Nairobi Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's federal government has sent relief materials to victims of this week's massive flooding in the northern city of Kaduna, which officially killed two people. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A relentless downpour in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna has displaced thousands of people and submerged hundreds of houses, according to Nigerian Red Cross officials. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Four Sudanese refugees and 60 domestic animals were killed when floods from a seasonal river swept through their settlement in north-western Uganda's Arua district. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- There are fears of fresh floods in Western Kenya's flood-prone Bundalangi division, on the country's border with Uganda following the rise in water levels of the Nzoia River in the past week. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Floods in Sudan have killed seven more people in the south of the country, with the government appealing for emergency aid to avert a "humanitarian disaster," local press reports said Saturday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The French government has donated an undisclosed amount for the purchase of relief materials including rice and water pump to assist flood victims in Senegal. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Some 700 families have been rendered homeless by floods from heavy rains in southern Sudan's Unity State, even as relief supplies poured into eastern Kassala State following the worst floods there in 70 years. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Office of the UN Resident Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Sudan has warned of more flooding in Kassala, north-eastern Sudan, as water levels in the Gash River started rising again Monday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Flash floods have devastated the Rubbkona and Bentiu localities of Unity State in Sudan's Western Upper Nile Region, the state-run commission for humanitarian aid announced here Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya government in conjunction with her development partners will soon put in place stringent measures to control floods and famine that have brought hardship to thousands of people in the country's flood prone areas, state minister in the country's Vice Presidency, Linah Jebii Kilimo, said here on Wednesday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Floods have killed another seven people in a Sudanese town south of the nation's capital, following heavy rains that also rendered thousands homeless, a Khartoum newspaper reported Sunday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leaders, Col. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Dwellers close to the Ouagadougou Dam are at risk of floods during the coming rainy season, local officials and the National Water Authority warned in a joint release here Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The US Ambassador to Kenya Johnnie Carson Thursday announced an 82,000-US-dollar emergency relief to victims of a recent flood in Kenya. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities have asked the Kenya Red Cross Society to co-ordinate all humanitarian efforts to deliver non-food assistance to victims of floods that have killed 40 people dead and displaced tens of thousands. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Far from showers of blessings, torrential rains have left millions of Kenyans reeling under the impact of the deluge. Full text...