But the soil will soon deplete, and deforestation means flash floods and mudslides will occur
Some residents have accused the South African National Defence Force of taking too long to respond with recovery assistance
It’s been over three months since a mudslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone, left 6,000 persons affected. Many continue to live in temporary shelter
Authorities combing a massive mud pile left by a Washington landslide that buried dozens of homes are bracing for the worst for those still missing.
Reports from Japan say a typhoon has left at least 20 people dead and more than 50 missing, after swollen rivers swept away buildings.
Towns hit by Brazil’s deadliest flooding disaster on record were on Wednesday waiting for millions of dollars in aid as the death toll climbed to 712.
Brazil is suffering its worst-ever flood disaster after mudslides near Rio de Janeiro this week killed more than 500 people.
Driving rains sent tonnes of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing at least 287 people and leaving dozens more missing.
Fresh heavy rains on Thursday brought more misery to a town in north-west China devastated by mudslides that have already killed more than 1 100.
Rescuers racing against a potential new deluge on Wednesday hurried to drain an unstable lake formed by China’s worst mudslides in decades.
The death toll from China’s worst mudslides in decades more than doubled to 702, officials said on Tuesday.
Rescuers armed with little more than shovels searched on Monday for hundreds of people after a torrent of mud engulfed a north-western Chinese town.
Rescue workers dug for survivors on Thursday after a torrent of mud ravaged a hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro, burying dozens of residents.
Flooding and mudslides killed at least 102 people in Brazil, authorities said, as rains paralysed the Rio de Janeiro area.
Grieving villagers in eastern Uganda dug through the night and moved tonnes of mud in the hope of finding relatives buried by a huge landslide.
At least 80 people died and 400 were missing after a landslide swept away entire villages in eastern Uganda, the Ugandan Red Cross said on Wednesday.
A landslide in eastern Uganda after heavy rains killed at least 45 people and hundreds are feared missing, Uganda’s disaster minister said on Tuesday.
Helicopters dropped rescuers into a village in southern Taiwan on Tuesday to search for victims of a mudslide that may have buried up to 600 people.
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/ 11 September 2008
Several hundred people believed missing after an industrial landslide engulfed a Chinese town are likely dead, state press said on Thursday.
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/ 10 September 2008
Angry residents protested as rescuers in China hunted on Wednesday for dozens of victims still missing two days after a mudslide killed 128 people.
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/ 9 September 2008
A mudslide on Monday triggered the collapse of a reservoir of iron-ore waste in northern China, burying houses and killing at least 34 people.