Eight electrocuted after heavy rains in South Africa
Eight people have been electrocuted after gale force winds and heavy rainfall lashed South Africa’s Western Cape province. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes, including residents of…
Flooding, lightning kill eight in war-hit Yemen
Flooding and lightning strikes in Yemen have killed eight civilians, an official and a doctor told AFP on Saturday, underscoring the threat of extreme weather in the war-ravaged country. The…
Flooding: Sanwo-Olu reads riot act against indiscriminate dumping of refuse
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Saturday, declared zero tolerance for indiscriminate dumping of refuse in drainages in the state. Sanwo-Olu made the declaration while addressing newsmen at the…
Ogun asks residents in flood-prone areas to relocate
Worried by the torrential rain being experienced as predicted by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency and other related agencies, the Ogun State Government on Friday alerted residents, especially those around the…
Libya floods: Flooded city buries its dead in mass graves
Bodies recovered from a devastating flood which wiped out parts of the port city of Derna in eastern Libya have been buried in mass graves. At least 2,300 people died…
Thousands feared dead as flooding sweeps Libya
Thousands of people are feared dead after a powerful storm triggered devastating flooding in Libya. The leader of the east Libyan government, which is not recognised internationally, said deaths exceeded…
Torrential rain in Spain causes major flooding
Several weather warnings have been issued across Spain as heavy rain causes major flooding across parts of the country. Maximum red weather alerts are in place in the Madrid, Toledo…
Floods loom large in Edo, Delta, Enugu, Rivers, Anambra, Niger, Kogi, four others
Following the alarm raised by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, that Cameroon has opened the Lagdo Dam, residents of 11 states have been gripped with fear. Their anxiety stems…
Cameroon dam opening: Evacuate to prevent deaths, FG, states warn flood-prone communities
The release of huge volumes of water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon has made states along the path of River Benue in Nigeria brace up for possible flood disasters…
No immediate threat of floods in Nigeria – FG
Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation,Prof. Joseph Utsev, has said there is no immediate threat of flooding in the country, calling on the government at all levels to put measures…