The Gambia National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) is today expected to dole out food aid to flood victims in West Coast Region almost 11 days after floods hit parts of the country. According to some statistics, about 114,000 people have been directly affected by the floods, precipitated by rainfall quantity,[Read More…]
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Flooding Kills At Least One In Senegal’s Capital
At least one person was killed and one severely wounded after torrential rain caused intense flooding in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Friday, a police officer said. Unusually heavy downpours hit the city for the second time in less than a month, sending brown, knee-deep water gushing down streets and grid-locking[Read More…]
Basse Area Council Attributes Floods in URR To Shoddy Road Works
As the country tried to come to terms with last weekend floods in the Greater Banjul Area (GBA), other destructive floods have hit parts of the regional capital of the URR but the local authority said the floods were as a result of poor drainage system and culverts. The Chinese[Read More…]
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