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The National Inland Waterways (NIWA) has confirmed that the boat accident that occurred in Niger state in northern Nigeria at the weekend claimed more than 22 lives.
At least 13 people have gone missing after a boat sank in Lake Chamo, Arba Minch, southern Ethiopia. The accident…
Ninety persons have been confirmed dead from a petrol tanker explosion in Majiya Town in Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State in northern Nigeria on Tuesday.
All three million children in Borno state in Northeast Nigeria are without school indefinitely, increasing the likelihood of child marriage and other protection risks, after being hit by the worst floods in 30 years, Save the Children said.
The UN agencies and their humanitarian partners are providing life-saving relief to families in Nigeria, who lost their homes during recent flooding.
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that 30 persons lost their lives in the flood that ravaged Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Tuesday,
The death toll from landslides in the Telemet district in Ethiopia’s Amhara region has reached 24, the district’s government communication…
Eleven persons died on Monday in a landslide in southern Ethiopia, not far from the site of a similar disaster last month, according to the local authority.
A three-storey building belonging to Saints Academy collapsed in Jos, the Plateau State capital, with 17 persons confirmed dead and more than 120 others trapped in the rubbles.
Over 80 shops and wooden structures used largely for accommodation by foreigners and squatters at the Nkrumah Circle were gutted by fire on Wednesday evening.