Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya government has launched a fund for flood victims as heavy rains continue to pound the East African nation, the death toll from flooding reached 30 on Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's death toll from flooding has reached 22 people, including an MP who drowned while trying to cross a swollen river in his car following heavy rains currently pounding the country. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Floods have rendered at least 700 people homeless in north-eastern Uganda's Kapchorwa district, a legislator from the area revealed Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan Member of Parliament, James Mutiso, was swept away to his death by floods Wednesday night as rains continued to wreak havoc in the country. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Lagos governor Bola Tinubu, re-elected to another four-year term Sunday, has vowed to tackle flooding of the Nigerian economic nerve centre, following havoc wreaked by flooding in recent days. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least four people have been killed following several days of heavy rains that unleashed floods and landslides on Malawi's northern mountainous district of Rumphi, officials said Wednesday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Flood caused by three weeks of persistent rain has inundated mining equipment at Malawi's Mchenga Coal Mine in the country's northern district of Rumphi, officials said Monday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Municipal authorities in the central Mozambican city of Beira and the country's National Disasters Management Institute, are stepping up efforts to resettle more than 15,000 people displaced by floods that also killed at least three people in the area last week. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- West Cape Provincial authorities on Tuesday said that the flash floods that hit the south-western part of South Africa last week caused damage estimated at 90 million rand (more than US$1. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Western Cape authorities have asked the South African government to declare a flooded region in the province as a disaster area, after flash floods earlier this week left hundreds of homes damaged or destroyed, with thousands of people fleeing the area. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Mop up operation was continuing Wednesday in the Western Cape town of Montague which has been devastated by flash floods with hundreds of homes destroyed and thousands of people displaced. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- River Save, on the boundary between southern and central Mozambique, has burst its banks and flooded the towns of Nova Mambone in Inhambane province, and Machanga in Sofala province, leaving thousands of people stranded, the national news agency (AIM) reported Tuesday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Thousands of flood victims in northern Zimbabwe began moving back to their homes Sunday following assurances from relief officials that the waters had receded to safe levels. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Government and donor relief agencies said Thursday two more people had been killed by raging floods in northern Zimbabwe, bringing the death toll to three in two days. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- One person was killed, and two major bridges swept away by floods in northern Zimbabwe Wednesday, police said. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A South African civil engineering researcher has started ground-breaking work in KwaZulu-Natal to help predict floods hours in advance so that authorities can be proactive when disaster strikes. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Eight people were killed during floods that hit Tunisia last weekend, according to an assessment made by the Tunisian press. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's devastating floods, which have displaced thousands of people and destroyed crops in seven districts, have now hit two more districts in the perennial flood-prone southern Lower Shire Valley of the country. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Heavy rains occurred in Tunisia last weekend causing floods in various areas, particularly the country's north-west. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least 3,000 families in the northern mountainous district of Rumphi have been rendered homeless following devastating floods over the weekend, a senior government official said Monday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Making an appeal for emergency aid, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi declared Saturday that his country was in a "state of national disaster" following severe flooding that has left seven deaths and thousands homeless, in addition to destroying property. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Making an appeal for emergency aid, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi declared Saturday that his country was in a "state of national disaster" following severe flooding that has left seven deaths and thousands homeless, in addition to destroying property. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- As the death tool reached seven from floods hitting six of Malawi's 27 districts, president Bakili Muluzi has planned an aerial survey of the devastated areas in a military helicopter Thursday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican National Water Board (DNA) has warned of possible flooding in the Licungo river basin in the country's central province of Zambezia. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least two people were confirmed dead while several others were injured after two rivers in the central lakeshore district of Salima burst their banks following three days of a heavy downpour. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least two people have died from flush floods that destroyed many houses and displaced some 300 families in Malawi's northern border district of Karonga, officials said Monday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco has designed a 1. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Floods that recently hit central Morocco have claimed 63 lives and left major property damage, a new official toll issued Friday said. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- At least 35 people have died and eight others reported missing in floods after Sunday's heavy rains in Morocco, according to official toll. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- More than 3,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Congo Brazzaville's northern Sangha region, the State radio reported Monday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Thirteen people were killed after a river in central Morocco burst its banks following heavy rains Sunday, the Moroccan news agency (MAP) reported Monday. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Some 3,000 people have been rendered homeless by floods from heavy rains in Somalia's southern Juba region. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least 10 people were confirmed dead and property of unknown value destroyed Monday when flash floods swept a settlement in central Kenya following a heavy rainfall. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Only half of the money pledged by foreign donors to Mozambique for reconstruction after the devastating floods of February 2000 has been disbursed, according to Public Works Minister Roberto White. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least five people have died in floods that followed 72-hour heavy rains in Somali's South West region of Gedo, some 550 km south west of Mogadishu, witnesses said Thursday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Twenty-eight people, including 15 children have died in Algeria in the last 48-hours following severe flooding from torrential rains in the eastern part of the country, reliable sources said Wednesday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Floods forced hundreds of families out of their homes Friday as heavy rain pounded Ghana's coastal cities of Accra and Tema continuously since Thursday night. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Floods have made schools inaccessible to hundreds of pupils in Kenya's parts of Lake Victoria basin a fortnight after they re-opened for a second term. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Nearly 50 lakes, high in the Himalayas, could burst their banks sending millions of gallons of deadly floodwaters swirling down valleys, putting at risk tens of thousands of lives, the UN Environment Programme warned Wednesday citing various reports from scientists. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Some 300 Malawian villagers have sought shelter in churches and schools in the southern district of Chikwawa following floods that have swept through 20 villages in a river valley of the district. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Flood from torrential rain has caused damage estimated at more than 25 million dirhams (about 2. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Flood from torrential rain has caused damage estimated at more than 25 million dirhams (about 2. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Floods swept away eight people at the weekend in Settat, 200 km south of the Moroccan capital, Rabat local press reports said Monday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Villagers in the flood-prone Lower Shire Valley in southern Malawi have rejected a government plan to resettle them upland, despite a fresh warning of more floods during the 2001/2002 rainy season. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- A special fund-raising programme on Algerian television last Thursday collected 101,000 million Algerian dinars (about 1,500 million US dollars) to help victims of the floods that hit the country on 10 November 10. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian State Television Wednesday launched a fund-raising telephone show in support of the country's recent flood victims. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- US Ambassador to Mali, Michael Ranneberger has donated 20 million CFA francs to victims of the recent flood disaster in Mali's southern town of Selingue, some 160-km from Bamako. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Clearing operations are expected to last three months in the aftermath of the devastating flood that killed at list 729 people, with 170 others still missing in Algeria, officials said in Algiers. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- As the rain season begins in Southern Africa, Mozambique's Southern Regional Water Board (ARA-Sul) has warned people living near river banks to take precautionary measures against possible floods affecting them. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The Organisation of African Unity (OAU), has donated 100,000 US dollars to Algeria to help alleviate the effects of the flood disaster that has claimed more than 750 lives in that country, an official said in Algiers. Full text...