Disease alert in flood-hit Africa
Severe flooding across Africa has wrecked hundreds of thousands of homes and left many people vulnerable to water-borne diseases, officials say...
West Africa: Flood Damage Pushes Back School Term for Millions
Some three million primary and secondary school students in West Africa will begin school several weeks late this year, while others hold their first days of classes in warehouses, because of unprecedented flooding in the region...
In West Africa flood response, UNICEF focuses on the most vulnerable children
NEW YORK, 25 September 2007 – Four weeks of heavy flooding have taken a damaging toll on countries in West and Central Africa, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced, several hundred killed, and homes and farmland swept away...
West Africa: Widespread Flooding Tests Governments, Aid Community
When the residents of 680 households in the Burkinabé province of Kouritenga found their homes flooded in early June, they could not have known the significance the incident would hold for the rest of the region and in fact the continent...
Downpours prevent Africa flood aid
Torrential rain across Africa has hampered efforts to get aid to hundreds of thousands of people desperate for food and shelter after the worst floods on the continent in three decades...
Ghana Hardest Hit in West Africa Floods, 350,000 People Affected
In West Africa, some 17 countries have been affected by flooding and right now it appears Ghana has been hardest hit. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says at least 30 people have died in northeastern Ghana. Most of the deaths are attributed to drowning, watery diarrhea or the collapse of mud houses...
