admin September 21st, 2009
With 500,000+ suffering from flooding in West Africa, East Africa is now facing drought and hunger, brought on by a combination of war and the failure of the rains.
There are already nearly 20m people in the region dependent on food aid and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is forecasting that this number will increase.
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Tags: Drought, East Africa, Eritea, Ethiopia, FAO, Floods, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, West Africa
admin September 10th, 2009
In the Spring it’s the Zambezi that floods regularly – and the Red Cross is putting in place its Zambezi River Basin Initiative to try to tackle that.
But at this time of year the flooding problem is in West Africa. Just a couple of days ago the BBC was reporting that 350,000 people had been affected in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea, Niger and Senegal.
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Tags: Benin, Burkina Faso, Floods, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Red Cross, Senegal, UN, West Africa, WFP, Zambezi
