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The European Union has recalled its ambassador in Niger for consultations in Brussels after the junta-led authorities had on Friday (22 November) questioned the EU’s management of humanitarian aid provided to those impacted by severe flooding in the Sahel country. The EU recalled its ambassador, Salvador Pinto da Franca, from Niamey after Niger’s junta had […]
More than hundred people are feared died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to flooding and landslide in Kinshasa Tuesday. “The death toll exceeds 100 in 5 communes including Mont-Ngafula, Ngaliema, Kintambo, Bandalungwa and Selembao,” Gentiny Ngobila, Kinshasa Governor told reporters after a visit. About sixty people were reported dead in Mont-Ngafula, one […]
The heavy flooding in Nigeria, which has covered farms and roads and slowed shipments of food and fuel, has now displaced more than 1 million people from their homes, with the death toll already surpassing 600. The country’s authorities are struggling to free up the gridlock, as a jump in prices is already making life […]
Hundreds of truckers have stopped working on Cameroon’s border with Chad to protest a ban on heavy trucking into Chad, which depends on Cameroon for 80% of its imported goods. Drivers transporting food and humanitarian assistance slammed what they call Cameroon’s refusal to repair the highly dilapidated road linking northern Cameroon and Chad. The strategically […]
The flooding that hit the West African country on August 28 killed at least 75 people, authorities said Sunday, News.Aniamey reports. The Civil Protection Directorate, (DGPC), indicated Monday that 54 people of victims were killed by slumps while the 21 others were drawn. The Maradi region recorded the highest toll with 30 dead while Zinder […]