Residents of Namibia are bracing for what could be ”the worst flood in four decades” in the north of the country.
Floods caused by almost a week of heavy rain killed at least three people and displaced more than 3 800 families in southern and western Angola.
Despite heavy rain, there has been no more flooding in Soweto, Johannesburg Emergency Management Services said on Sunday.
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/ 28 February 2009
Clean-up and repair operations were under way in Soweto on Saturday after the area was hit by heavy flooding this week.
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/ 12 January 2009
Authorities in Mozambique say torrential rains have killed 19 people in the past few days and worse flooding may lie ahead.
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/ 12 November 2008
Heavy rains are expected to hit at least four provinces on Thursday, says the South African Weather Service.
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/ 4 November 2008
Rain continued to lash Vietnam on Tuesday as the official death toll climbed to 74 after more than a week of heavy downpours.
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/ 20 October 2008
Storms and floods have killed seven people in Morocco in the past 24 hours, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Monday.
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/ 13 October 2008
Algeria has announced it will spend €500-million on protecting towns from flooding as the death toll from floods this month rose to 43 on Sunday.
About 5 000 people demonstrated in the flood-riven southern Algerian town of Ghardaia on Friday to demand urgent aid after flash floods killed 31.
People demonstrated in the flood-riven southern Algerian town of Ghardaia on Friday to demand urgent aid after flash floods killed 31 residents.
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/ 24 September 2008
Twenty more people were killed, taking to 46 the death toll from floods in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Wednesday.
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/ 12 September 2008
Several parts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, were submerged in more than 1m of water on Friday after torrential rain, meteorologists said.
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/ 7 September 2008
India grapples with the task of feeding and housing close to a million villagers displaced by huge floods in the eastern state of Bihar.
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/ 7 September 2008
Rescue workers found eight bodies buried under tonnes of mud after days of monsoon rains loosened soil and buried about 20 makeshift houses.
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/ 4 September 2008
India and Nepal are trading barbs in an escalating dispute over the failure of flood defences that left millions of people destitute.
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/ 2 September 2008
Distraught and destitute, countless numbers of poor Indian villagers are slowly wading out of their flood-hit region in a desperate search for food.
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/ 1 September 2008
The Indian army and navy stepped up efforts on Monday to rescue hundreds of thousands marooned by floods.
Two thousand people are now feared dead in floods caused after a river changed course submerging hundreds of villages in northern India.
Indian emergency services on Wednesday rushed supplies to 2,5-million people marooned after heavy monsoon rains caused a river to shift its course.
Flooding in Ethiopia’s western Gambella region has killed three people, displaced thousands and destroyed crops, an official said on Monday.
Flood victims demanding food and shelter beat up government officials in India on Friday as monsoon rains spread misery among millions of people.
Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods across South Asia in which 147 people have been killed in the past week as the downpours swamped villages.
At least four people have died in Laos as a result of flooding caused by record high water levels in the Mekong River, a government spokesperson said.
At least nine people have been killed in torrential floods that have submerged entire villages in Togo.
After Hurricane Dolly hit the US-Mexico coastline, widespread flooding along the Rio Grande Valley became the top concern on Thursday.
Skies showed signs of clearing over the Western Cape on Wednesday afternoon, offering a respite to communities hit by days of driving rain and floods.
Officials were on Tuesday monitoring a cracked bridge over the swollen Olifants River on the West Coast and assessing other damage in the region.
Thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in Cape Town, the city said on Monday as the SA Weather Service predicted more rain.
The KwaZulu-Natal flood death toll rose to 16 on Monday after a decomposing body was found in the Umzinto River.
Heavy rains have left more than 4 000 people homeless in the Cape Peninsula as two more people are reported killed in KwaZulu-Natal floods.
Informal settlements worst hit by coastal downpour