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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of Kenyans who have perished in ravaging floods in different parts of the country rose to 285 by Wednesday, the Devolution Ministry has announced. The rains started pounding Kenya and the larger East African region in October 2019. Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa told a press [...]
©- - 27 may 2020 - 12:03:14 - thread Environment (269 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan authorities maybe forced to embark on forceful relocation of flood victims as the death toll occasioned by heavy rains hit 220 on Monday. Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa said the rain pounding the country in recent months has left over 100,000 people displaced, houses and crops [...]
©- - 11 may 2020 - 13:08:59 - thread Environment (238 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least 72 people have died over the last two days in seven districts across Rwanda since flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains began earlier in the week, the ministry of Emergency Management said in a report obtained on Friday by PANA in Kigali. The worst [...]
©- - 08 may 2020 - 10:11:48 - thread Environment (305 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least two people were killed by lightning in Rwanda's North Western district of Rubavu on Monday, local media reported on Tuesday quoting a senior local administrative official in the region. The lightning incident followed rains and thunderstorms in several parts of Rubavu district on Congo Nile [...]
©- - 31 march 2020 - 14:04:47 - thread Environment (143 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A heavy rain which hit several parts of Rubavu district in northwestern Rwanda late Tuesday has destroyed some 17 residential homes, local administrative officials in the region confirmed on Wednesday. The Executive Secretary of Bugeshi Sector, which was the worst affected in Rubavu district, Jean Bosco Rwibasira, [...]
©- - 25 march 2020 - 15:05:47 - thread Environment (217 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Russia has donated US$200,000 to flood victims in Congo, PANA learned on Wednesday from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action. This donation consists of a shipment of 35 tonnes of food and non-food supplies, including camping tents, blankets and rice. It will provide humanitarian assistance to [...]
©- - 18 march 2020 - 12:00:53 - thread Environment (84 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Record rainfall that hit several parts of Rwanda in the last three months has killed at least 53 people and left 84 others wounded, reports from the Ministry of Emergency Management indicated on Friday. The rain has also cut off 23 roads and destroyed at least 858 [...]
©- - 06 march 2020 - 12:27:27 - thread Environment (189 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Heavy rain which flooded several parts of Rwanda in the last two days have killed at least six people, including two individuals struck by lightning and leaving 29 others seriously wounded in eight mostly affected districts, a senior official from the ministry of Disaster management and [...]
©- - 04 march 2020 - 21:31:18 - thread Environment (208 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  A rainstorm that swept across Rwanda late Monday caused landslides and killed at least 4 people, leaving 13 others seriously wounded, a senior Government official confirmed to PANA in Kigali on Tuesday. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugees Affairs, Olivier Kayumba, said [...]
©- - 03 march 2020 - 17:45:59 - thread Environment (184 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundian ministry of public security and disaster prevention drew up, on Friday, a death toll of 461 people, 700 others injured and more than 65,000 ha of farm lands destroyed following torrential rains which caused floods and landslides since last September. The same bad weather has [...]
©- - 28 february 2020 - 17:56:50 - thread Environment (358 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Humanitarian, technical and financial partners have been able to mobilize nearly US$ 11 million or 26 percent of estimated needs to fight the menace Congo floods, the acting United Nations system coordinator in Brazzaville, Cyr Modeste Kouamé, announced on Friday. "The money mobilized is 26 percent of [...]
©- - 28 february 2020 - 17:39:41 - thread Environment (382 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi Geographical Institute (IGEBU) warned on Wednesday of above-seasonal rainfall for the coming months in a country where there is already significant material and human damage attributed to climate change affecting 15 of Burundi's 18 provinces. As a result of climate change, which is currently characterized [...]
©- - 12 february 2020 - 16:37:48 - thread Environment (407 words)


Binga, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Flash flooding has hit parts of Zimbabwe’s western province, Matabeleland North, prompting a response from the southern African nation’s air force that provided two helicopters to assist affected people. In a statement, the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works said that Binga District in Matabeleland North [...]
©- - 11 february 2020 - 14:39:19 - thread Environment (380 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)  -  At least 67 houses were destroyed after heavy rains in Huye district, about 130 Km from Kigali in Southern Rwanda this week, a senior administrative official in the region confirmed Friday. There were no casualties as the residents escaped unhurt in the villages of Karama, Rusatira , [...]
©- - 07 february 2020 - 22:11:55 - thread Environment (277 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Rwanda's meterological agency has warned of impending heavy rains to hit 6 districts with the possibility to expand across other regions beginning Monday. In its latest weather forecast posted Monday, the weather department warned that the torrential rains will especially be experienced in Kigali city and other [...]
©- - 03 february 2020 - 21:53:09 - thread Environment (265 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  At least 13 people have been killed and several others wounded after a downpour on Sunday led to widespread floods and landslides in the  suburbs of Kigali, the Rwandan capital, a senior official of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugees Affairs said on  Monday. The most [...]
©- - 03 february 2020 - 16:00:02 - thread Environment (198 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The heavy rains that pounded the Burundi capital throughout Tuesday evening have caused material damage, including the destruction of at least 150 houses in the most poorly-serviced southern, northern and central working-class neighbourhoods of Bujumbura, local administrative sources and distressed victims said on Wednesday. Miraculously, there were [...]
©- - 29 january 2020 - 14:15:12 - thread Environment (368 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA)  - The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported here Sunday that 14 people were killed, 33 injured while 986 households were displaced following heavy rains that hit the national capital in the last week of December 2019. The OCHA, in its latest assessment of the floods, [...]
©- - 05 january 2020 - 11:50:39 - thread Environment (580 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Over 1,000 houses have been destroyed by recent floods-in Kenya as heavy rains pounding eastern Africa subside. Victims, who lost goats, sheep, pets and household goods, live in low-lying, flood-prone areas in Kisumu County of western  Kenya. According the region's administrators, they have moved to buildings on higher [...]
©- - 30 december 2019 - 14:10:58 - thread Environment (157 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The short dry season has not been a happy one in Burundi at the end of the year. Instead, the worst floods have occurred in the country, causing enormous human and material damage due to global climate change, climate activists here said here Sunday. Burundi normally has [...]
©- - 29 december 2019 - 12:55:48 - thread Environment (511 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – At least 12 people were killed, about 30 injured and many others reported missing following heavy rains in Burundi’s economic capital, Bujumbura, on Saturday night. This is according to the latest death toll released by the minister of Public Safety and Disaster Prevention, Alain Guillaume Bunyoni. Northeast Bujumbura [...]
©- - 22 december 2019 - 16:52:55 - thread Environment (205 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana Railways has confirmed the death of its crew members died in a train accident between Pallaroad and Mahalapye early on Tuesday. About 400 train passengers were safely evacuated from the accident scene about 150 km from Gaborone, the capital. The Botswana Railways Express train derailed near Bonwapitse [...]
©- - 10 december 2019 - 18:33:29 - thread Environment (201 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Many villages in Botswana have been hit by floods following heavy countrywide rains. Following Monday afternoon's downpour residents of the village of Molepolole, some 60km from the capital, Gaborone, have no access because of floods and damage to the road. The downpours, which have been recorded above 150 mm [...]
©- - 10 december 2019 - 11:52:30 - thread Environment (189 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Botswana National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) is bracing itself for floods which are expected and most likely will hit countrywide. Botswana is expecting two days of heavy rains accompanied by strong winds and lightning that are forecast to occur from Wed 4 to Friday 6 Dec [...]
©- - 03 december 2019 - 21:13:31 - thread Environment (276 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of people  who have lost their lives since the onset of heavy rains in Kenya in October has reached 118, the government said on Thursday. Government Spokesman Cyrus Oguna told the press that the worst hit area is West Pokot County, western Kenya, where 43 [...]
©- - 28 november 2019 - 13:23:21 - thread Environment (242 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)  -  Rwanda’s Meteorology Agency Wednesday issued a warning over heavy rains beginning Thursday through Saturday. A weather forecast released by the agency said the heavy rains with precipitations ranging between 20mm-60mm were expected in several parts across the country affecting mainly Rubavu and Nyabihu, two districts in north [...]
©- - 27 november 2019 - 22:25:02 - thread Environment (116 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The U.S. Ambassador to Congo, Todd Haskell,  announced on Tuesday in Brazzaville that his country has mobilized an emergency fund to help victims of floods in the north of the country. The ambassador gave this indication after his meeting with the Congolese Prime Minister, Clément Mouamba. The US [...]
©- - 27 november 2019 - 18:49:32 - thread Environment (224 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Sunday pledged US$50,000 towards the relief efforts for the flood victims in the Republic of Djibouti, according to an official statement obtained by PANA in Kigali. The Executive Secretary of IGAD, Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu, said, “The floods in Djibouti are [...]
©- - 23 november 2019 - 22:04:29 - thread Environment (280 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Torrential rain has pummelled parts of Central African Republic (CAR) since October 21 impacting at least 57,000 people so far, a relief agency said on Friday. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said over 10,000 homes have been destroyed. Worst affected are impoverished neighbourhoods that are under water due [...]
©- - 15 november 2019 - 13:03:59 - thread Environment (385 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Over 144,000 people in 25 counties across Kenya are estimated to be affected by riverine and flash floods, rock falls, mudslides and landslides caused by the ongoing heavy rains, according to preliminary findings by the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS). In a flash update on the floods, [...]
©- - 07 november 2019 - 13:30:24 - thread Environment (562 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NHISA) says five States of the country should be on "red alert" of imminent flooding following the spilling of water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon from 10 to 31 October. Dr Clement Nze, Director General of NIHSA, told journalists in Abuja [...]
©- - 05 november 2019 - 07:25:10 - thread Environment (291 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)   -  Kenya-based  IGAD Climate Prediction & Applications Centre (ICPAC) Wednesday renewed an alert over a tropical storm named "Kyarr" from the northern Indian Ocean which is expected to reach Puntland and Somaliland and several other parts across the East African region over the next four to five [...]
©- - 30 october 2019 - 23:24:30 - thread Environment (321 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Over 100,000 people, including students of the Benue State University (BSU), were Tuesday rendered homeless as flood ravaged seven local government areas of Benue State, Northcentral Nigeria. Sources said that the flood came as a result of the release of water from the neighbouring Lagdo Lake in [...]
©- - 30 october 2019 - 17:01:37 - thread Environment (523 words)


Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - Heavy rains that fell on Sunday night and Monday morning on Tunis and in several regions of Tunisia, flooded many houses and swept vehicles away, while neighborhoods were isolated, roads and exits blocked and the circulation of the subway system put out of operation in the [...]
©- - 28 october 2019 - 18:07:44 - thread Environment (154 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A UN organization in Sudan has hinted that although abundant rains were a blessing, they still come coupled with flood and other yet more dire hosts of calamities, including Cholera, Dengue Fever, Rift Valley Fever (RVF) and Chikungunya. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair [...]
©- - 24 october 2019 - 18:24:38 - thread Environment (648 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday said that 18 people died while 41,959 others were displaced during a flood disaster in Niger State, Northcentral Nigeria. This is just as the management of Core TV news station announced the temporary shutdown of the station due to [...]
©- - 24 october 2019 - 17:54:20 - thread Environment (449 words)


Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Since the beginning of the torrential rains that caused several rivers to overflow, southwest Benin remains flooded. The water level of the Mono River at Athieme was 8.3 m at 10 local hours on Wednesday, while it was 8.2 m on Tuesday at the same time, according [...]
©- - 24 october 2019 - 17:22:11 - thread Environment (373 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of people who lost their lives following the ongoing heavy rains in Kenya has hit 29, according to government spokesman Cyrus Oguna on Thursday. He attributed the deaths and property damage to flash floods and landslides. Oguna told a press conference that another 6 people were [...]
©- - 24 october 2019 - 13:22:47 - thread Environment (174 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Over 20 people have died as a result of ongoing heavy rains across Kenya, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa said on Wednesday.   Speaking as he kicked off the supply of relief food to victims in worst hit counties, Wamalwa said apart from distributing relief stuff, the government [...]
©- - 23 october 2019 - 15:14:39 - thread Environment (199 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The menace of flooding in Nigeria continues as the country's commercial capital, Lagos, alerted residents on the rise of sea water level resulting in the inability of the Lagos lagoon to discharge water into the ocean causing back flow into the drainage channels. Lagos State Commissioner for [...]
©- - 19 october 2019 - 10:58:32 - thread Environment (541 words)


Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The overflowing Mono River has caused a lot of damage in southwest Benin, local authorities of affected areas confirmed on Wednesday. In Chiangba town, 221 hectares of cotton fields were washed away along with farm inputs estimated at 24,034,000 CFA francs, according to Etienne Doli, secretary of [...]
©- - 16 october 2019 - 09:11:09 - thread Environment (192 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's meteorological department on Thursday warned of heavy rainfall  that could lead to natural disasters in several parts of Northern, Western and Southern provinces this week. "Heavy to very heavy rain with extremely heavy rain with precipitation ranging between 10 and 25 mm at isolated places is [...]
©- - 10 october 2019 - 20:52:18 - thread Environment (226 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Floods of May 2019 in Bamako caused property damage estimated at nearly 6 billion CFA francs, the Deputy Director General of Civil Protection, Col. Tiécoro Samaké, said on Thursday at a workshop that reviewed the results of the work of experts on the causes of [...]
©- - 04 october 2019 - 14:41:38 - thread Environment (311 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - In the Okavango Delta, term “flood” does not have a negative meaning, as the Okavango flood does not usually endanger life, property, infrastructure or the integrity of the ecosystem. Floods are quite the opposite in the Okavango Delta, the annual flood is an absolutely indispensable event that [...]
©- - 01 october 2019 - 20:27:59 - thread Environment (716 words)


Niamey, Niger (PANA) - About 211,366 people have been affected by floods in Niger, according to information released recently by the Ministry of Humanitarian Action and the Directorate of Civil Protection. The floods resulted in the collapse of 16,375 homes and 57 deaths. Three regions alone account for 67% of the [...]
©- - 27 september 2019 - 17:31:49 - thread Environment (469 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's political class continues to call for national and international mobilization in areas where severe floods have resulted in loss of life and damage to property. Pressure group, Coalition Living Together (CVE), a rally from the black nationalist movement, is calling for an emergency plan for Guidimakha and [...]
©- - 02 september 2019 - 10:33:28 - thread Environment (230 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - About 350 houses collapsed, animals, canoes, kitchen utensils and several objects washed away, following the heavy rains that fell in Massala, a town located in the south of Mali. "We were surprised and overwhelmed by the abundance of floods to such an extent that we became prisoners [...]
©- - 26 august 2019 - 15:34:27 - thread Environment (235 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudanese officials says at least 62 people were killed, 98 sustained injuries and some 36,000 homes were levelled to the ground as a result of intermittent but heavy rains and floods in central and central-eastern Sudan. Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health said torrential rains that resulted in [...]
©- - 25 august 2019 - 20:05:11 - thread Environment (257 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) in the Sudan said thousands of people have been affected by flash flood and torrential rains across Sudan’s 13 states while thousands of houses have been leveled to the ground. A report released hourly and published on the United Nations Office for [...]
©- - 20 august 2019 - 19:33:16 - thread Environment (189 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has issued an alert, warning Nigerians of imminent increased flooding in 30 of its 36 States next month, mainly across the major river banks of the country.   Nigeria had faced flooding in recent years, with hundreds killed and thousands displaced.   Director General of [...]
©- - 08 august 2019 - 15:27:49 - thread Environment (570 words)

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