Cameroon: Choléra: 225 morts dans le nord du Cameroun, 67 au Nigeria
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: Cameroon, NigeriaYAOUNDE - L'épidémie de choléra déclarée début mai au Cameroun a déjà tué 225 personnes dans deux régions du nord du pays, selon un nouveau bilan...
View ArticleNigeria: Cholera death toll in Nigeria rises to 283
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigeriaKANO, Nigeria - The death toll from cholera and a related disease in northern Nigerian has risen to 283 from 231 within a week, according to various official...
View ArticleCameroon: Cameroon needs millions to fight cholera
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: CameroonYAOUNDE - Cameroon will need at least 3.8 million euros to fund its emergency plan following a cholera outbreak in the north, which has killed 278 people...
View ArticleMauritania: Aide algérienne après les intempéries au Niger et en Mauritanie
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: Mauritania, NigerALGER - L'Algérie a envoyé samedi soixante tonnes d'aide humanitaire au Niger, frappé par des intempéries qui ont fait plus de 110.000 sans-abri, a...
View ArticleNiger: Inondation au Niger: près de 200.000 sans-abris
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigerNIAMEY - Près de 200.000 personnes sont sinistrées au Niger, en raison des inondations provoquées par les fortes pluies qui se sont abattues depuis début août...
View ArticleBenin: West African union provides financial aid for floods
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, SenegalOUAGADOUGOU - The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) on Monday announced one billion CFA francs (1.52 million...
View ArticleNiger: Niger floods bring disaster on top of food crisis
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigerBy Boureima Hama (AFP) NIAMEY - Collapsed buildings, flooded-out rice paddies: the floods in Niger are not as spectacular as those in Pakistan, but they spell...
View ArticleNigeria: Floods kill 3, displace thousands in northern Nigeria
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigeriaKANO, Nigeria - Heavy rains in recent weeks have killed at least three people and displaced thousands in northern Nigeria where entire villages have been...
View ArticleGhana: Dam spill floods kill 17 in Ghana
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: GhanaACCRA - At least 17 people have drowned in northern Ghana in recent weeks after nearby Burkina Faso opened spillway gates to dams following heavy rains, the...
View ArticleChad: Nearly 70,000 left homeless by Chad floods: UN agency
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: ChadLIBREVILLE - Heavy rains in Chad have caused flooding in more than half of the country's regions, leaving nearly 70,000 homeless and threatening the country's...
View ArticleNigeria: Open flood gates displace two million in Nigeria
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigeriaLAGOS - About two million people, or about half the population of Nigeria's Jigawa state, have been displaced after authorities had to open flood gates on...
View ArticleNigeria: Agency denies opened dams caused Nigeria floods
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigeriaDUTSE, Nigeria - The agency in charge of two dams in northern Nigeria denied on Sunday that the opening of gates at the barriers had caused major flooding...
View ArticleNigeria: Flood victims sleep by roadsides in northern Nigeria
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigeriaBy Susan Njanji (AFP)HADEJIA, Nigeria - They sleep where they can, the men seeking dry spots on roadsides, women and children piling into houses still...
View ArticleNigeria: Nigerian flood victims face food, shelter shortages
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigeriaBy Aminu Abubakar (AFP)SABONGARIN DOLE, Nigeria - Thousands of people from more than 30 flooded villages in northwestern Nigeria faced shortages of food and...
View ArticleNigeria: Nigeria: Flooding leaves scores homeless in Lagos
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: NigeriaLAGOS - Scores of slum residents in the Nigerian commercial capital Lagos have been left homeless by flooding from a river following last month's opening of...
View ArticleChad: Tchad: désolation dans un quartier de N'Djamena envahi par les eaux
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: ChadDe Ali Abba KAYA (AFP) N'DJAMENA - C'est la désolation à Walia, un quartier de N'Djamena, la capitale tchadienne, où les eaux du fleuve Chari ont envahi les...
View ArticleBenin: 377 dead in west and central African floods: UN
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan(AFP)DAKAR - The United Nations said Tuesday that 377 people had died in...
View ArticleBenin: West African floods swamp Benin
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: BeninBy Fiacre Vidjingninou (AFP)COTONOU - Families sleep by the roadside under shelter made of scrap wood and metal, their homes destroyed by the rains in Benin --...
View ArticleTogo: Togo floods leave 21 dead, more than 82,000 affected
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: TogoLOME - Flooding in the small West African nation of Togo has killed 21 people and affected more than 82,000 in recent months, the government said on Friday,...
View ArticleBenin: Iran minister pledges flood aid on W.African visit
Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: Benin(AFP) COTONOU - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Sunday promised his country would send humanitarian aid to flood-hit Benin as he visited the...
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