According to the latest official toll, 21 people are confirmed to have been killed by Cyclone Chido when it barrelled into the island and its surrounding archipelago at the weekend.
A senior official said Sunday that the death toll from cyclone Chido’s passage across Mayotte would be in the hundreds, perhaps even thousands, as France rushed in rescue workers and supplies.
Takriban watu watano wameripotiwa kufariki dunia kufuatia mafuriko makubwa na maporomoko ya ardhi yaliyoikumba kisiwa kikuu cha Java nchini Indonesia mapema wiki hii, shirika la maafa la kitaifa lilisema Ijumaa, wakati waokoaji wakikimbia kutafuta wengine saba ambao bado hawajulikani walipo.
Flash floods and landslides struck Indonesia’s main Java island earlier this week, killing at least five people, the national disaster agency said Friday, as rescuers race to find seven others still missing.
Seismologists at the US Geological Survey said the shallow 7.0 magnitude tremor had hit around 68 kilometers (42 miles) from the coastal town of Ferndale mid-morning, with people living in the area experiencing strong ground shakes.
The Kenya Meteorological Department has issued a heavy rainfall advisory for parts of Central Kenya, Nairobi, the Central Rift Valley, and the Southeastern lowlands from Thursday, until Saturday, November 16, 2024.
A new analysis by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) network of scientists found warming driven by the use of fossil fuels had exacerbated the flooding in Sudan.
Florida residents fled — or defied warnings and hunkered down — in the final hours Wednesday before Hurricane Milton, a lethal Category 4 storm, pummels the Gulf Coast and tears across the state.
Six more bodies, including those of two children, have been retrieved on Wednesday from the site of a massive garbage…
The death toll from a garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has risen to 23, including five children, according…
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