Floods due to intensive rain caused infrastructure collapse in bridges over Urubamba river, damages in housing, loss of lives of lives, isolation of people and lost of crops.
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read moreSevere floods were reported over Cochabamba, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca, La Paz, Oruro and Tarija . At least 9,000 families have been evacuated from their homes.
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read moreMany houses in the Wadi Gaza area, south of Gaza City have been flooded and many others are still in high risk. Several bridges in the area are also at risk of being washed away. Around 500 people have been affected so far.
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read moreExtreme rain falls that are happening in Montenegro, from December last year until January 10th 2010, caused serious material damage. Great number of houses in the surrounding area of the Skadar Lake, the municipality of Ulcinj, in the vicinity of the river Bojana, municipality of Golubovci, Zeta, municipality of Cetinje, Rijeka Crnojevica, ?abljak Crnojevica, Bjolopavlici plain and municipality of Niksici have been flooded. Some 1100 persons or 245 households had to be evacuated, since they stayed without their homes.
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Heavy rains reported nationwide and attributed to the El Ni?o phenomenon has caused major floods in 6 departments: Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Tarija, La Paz, Pando and Beni. 3 deaths have been reported, 2 people remain missing and a total of 4,500 families have been affected. The National Council for Disaster Reduction and Response (CONRADE) has activated the municipal and departmental Emergency Operations Centers (EOC). The Ministry of Health and Sports (MSD) is coordinating field missions and response operations jointly with the Departmental Health Services (SEDES) in the affected regions.
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Several regions/areas of the mainland Tanzania are currently experiencing quite devastating floods following ongoing above normal heavy rains that have in some areas poured almost continuously since 24th December 09 to date (1st January 2010)
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Floods caused by heavy rains have killed 05 people, injured 20, and left many thousands homeless in and around Moroccan town of Agadir on 24 December 2009. 1500 families are estimated to have been affected by the worst floods the region has been experiencing since decades. Three of the twelve district of the surrounding Agadir province has been affected by the floods and thousand of hundreds of homes have been inundated.
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Currently, more than 1200 buildings/houses (some partially) and 9000ha farmland are flooded. So far, 730 families from the district of Shkodra have been evacuated from the flooded areas. Many displaced families are sheltered in student dormitories provided by the Government. The rest of the displaced people are sheltered by friends and relatives. The Albanian Government foresees that in the coming days 3000 to 3500 additional families have to be evacuated. It has declared the ?state of civil emergency? and has established an Inter-Ministerial Committee.
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Since late December, several districts in Kenya have been experiencing heavy rains and floods that have caused deaths, destruction of property and displacement of hundreds of people.
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Heavy rains in Huancavelica and Junin departments have caused damages in houses, buildings, roads, bridges and crop fields. More than 150 affected in total.
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