Australia’s third-largest city, Brisbane, was turned into a "war zone" on Thursday with whole suburbs under water.
Residents in Australia’s third largest city, Brisbane, sandbagged their homes against rising waters on Monday as torrential rain worsened floods.
The Emfuleni municipality in Gauteng and the Mpumalanga province issued flood warnings on Thursday after main rivers began overflowing.
Floods in KwaZulu-Natal had claimed five lives by Wednesday as heavy rains continued to soak large parts of the country.
The water affairs department issued a flood warning on Wednesday after two days of heavy rainfall soaked parts of the country.
The water affairs department was expected to issue a flood warning on Wednesday after two days of heavy rainfall devastated parts of the country.
Floodwaters eased in Australia’s major coal mining region on Tuesday, allowing some mines to slowly resume production.
Military helicopters supply food and medicine to city of Rockhampton after floods hit Queensland, killing three people.
Military aircraft flew supplies to an Australian town disappearing beneath floodwaters on Monday, as flooding in the north-east cut coal exports.
Large parts of Australia’s coastal northeast disappeared under floodwaters on Sunday in a spreading disaster.
Flood waters swept through vast areas of north-eastern Australia on Saturday, threatening to inundate thousands more homes.
Floodwater rose across a vast area in Australia’s northeast on Friday, inundating 22 towns, forcing 200 000 residents out of their homes.
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/ 16 December 2010
Seven people and a dog had to be helped to safety on Thursday after being caught by rising water following heavy rain in Pretoria and Johannesburg.
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/ 2 November 2010
floods in the West African nation of Benin have destroyed 55 000 homes, killed tens of thousands of livestock and created a new cholera risk.
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/ 29 October 2010
The worst floods to hit parts of Thailand in decades have left 94 people dead and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said on Friday.
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/ 22 October 2010
Flooding in the West African state of Benin has affected 680 000 people, UN officials said on Friday.
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/ 25 September 2010
Nigerian authorities opened the gates at two dams in the rain-soaked north, sending a flood into a neighbouring state that has displaced millions.
The European Union nearly doubled its aid to flood-stricken Pakistan to €70-million on Wednesday.
At least 24 people were killed across Ghana on the weekend after severe floods swept away houses, Ghana’s disaster management agency said on Monday.
The death toll from the worst flooding in south-eastern France in more than 180 years rose to 25 on Thursday, local authorities said.
Flooding and mudslides killed at least 102 people in Brazil, authorities said, as rains paralysed the Rio de Janeiro area.
A woman drowned in her car on Wednesday evening when it was washed away in Bryanston during heavy rains, Gauteng paramedics said.
About 130 000 people are to be evacuated in flood-prone Mozambique because of rising waters in three main rivers, state media said on Wednesday.
More than 300 000 people have been displaced by floods in eastern Uganda, a Cabinet minister said on Monday.
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/ 29 January 2010
Two roads near the Vaal Dam were closed after it burst its banks on Friday, an official said.
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/ 26 January 2010
Four people died and a teenager was missing because of flooding caused by incessant rains in large parts of the country, police said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 September 2009
The Philippines on Monday appealed for international aid as it struggled to cope with floods that killed at least 140 people.
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/ 28 September 2009
Philippine health authorities warned on Monday of disease outbreaks following horror floods.
Thousands of shack dwellers were left homeless on Monday morning after heavy rains caused flooding around Cape Town.
As flood waters in Namibia subside after nearly four months, residents are slowly repairing their homesteads and harvesting the few remaining crops.
Hydrologists fear there may be more rains to come in the next few weeks, with Cyclone Izilda heading for Mozambique.
Rising waters in North Dakota on Friday forced hundreds to head for higher ground as the state braced for its worst floods in recorded history.