Tag: floods
Floods in Rwanda: infrastructure hard hit
In Rwanda, the toll from Tuesday’s floods rose to 131 dead, 94 injured and more than 5,500 homes destroyed. Among the hard-hit infrastructure, some roads are completely impassable. This makes…
Floods in Congo-Kinshasa – over 170 dead
Hundreds of houses have been swept away by the waters. About a hundred people are missing, according to Theo Ngwabije, governor of South Kivu. – The searches continue in a…
Latest news – Hundreds dead after floods
Hundreds dead after floods today at 18.06 Lukas Jacobson At least 176 people have died after floods in South Kivu province of Congo-Kinshasa, reports Reuters. Heavy rain has led to…
Rwanda buries its dead after floods caused by torrential rains
In Rwanda, torrential rains that fell overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday caused flooding affecting the west and north of the country. In the district of Rubavu, the most affected by…
Cirque Baobab floods La Scala with talent
Created in 1998 in Conakry, the Circus Baobab company mixes circus art and social commitment. She presents for the first time in Paris her show “Yé! which means “water” in…
Natural damage is increasing – the state is warned: “Remember the floods with horror”
Climate change will most likely lead to us increasingly being affected by natural disasters in the future. To minimize the impact of this, society must act faster and more forcefully.…
Expect Chatham basement floods Tuesday, high Thames River levels till weekend: LTVCA
Expect high Thames River levels to continue until the weekend and cause basement flooding along Chatham’s King Street Tuesday, the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority warns. “Water levels on the…
Africa will have to adapt its sanitation system to more frequent floods
Humanity has broken the water cycle “, her “ vital substance “. The words spoken in New York by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the second day of the United Nations…
Close to 250 dead in floods in Malawi – “We need help”
– I am asking you, our international partners and donors, for help. This is a national tragedy that affects us all, he says on the spot in the worst affected…
In Brazil, São Paulo’s carnival weekend turned dark – at least 36 people died in floods
Floods and landslides are caused by heavy rains. For example, in the city of Bertioga, it rained 68.7 centimeters of water per day. In the Brazilian state of São Paulo,…