Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Natural Disasters
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Disaster response in Asia and the Pacific
How do international and regional tools and services support disaster response in Asia-Pacific? Asia-Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region, so disaster management is a regional priority. Over
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Accelerating Sendai Framework implementation in Asia: disaster risk reduction in contexts of violence, conflict and fragility
This report explores the links between disasters and conflict in Asia, with a view to supporting accelerated implementation of the Asia Regional Plan, Target E and the Sendai Framework. Just under half
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The role and vulnerabilities of older people in drought in East Africa: progress, challenges and opportunities for a more inclusive humanitarian response
Whilst older people have special needs, they also have unique skills, experiences and roles within their families, communities and societies. These roles continue to a certain extent during droughts, though
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Mercury rise, pollution trigger lightning risks
KOLKATA: The frequency of lightning in Kolkata has increased dramatically in recent years and will continue to rise, triggering fatal consequences unless the city manages to check air pollution, scientists
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AMC's West Zone is flood-prone: Study
AHMEDABAD: For the last seven monsoons, the West Zone of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation — Navrangpura, Gandhigram, Naranpura, Wadaj, Sabarmati, Paldi, Stadium, Vasna wards — has been most prone to
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17 die in rain-related deaths in June, kin of 4 to get Rs 2L each
NAVI MUMBAI/MUMBAI: As many as 17 people have died in separate rain-related tragedies this month in the city and suburbs, four of whom fell victim to the heavy downpour in Navi Mumbai since Sunday. The
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West Bengal: Five killed in lightning strikes, one drowns; alert issued in districts
Sources at state secretariat, Nabanna, said, they had a control room from where the chief minister would monitor the situation across the state. According to a source, all district magistrates have been
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North may turn into a ‘dust bowl’
As North India awaits its share of Southwest monsoon, do weather occurrences in the pre-monsoon period this year (unprecedentedly violent dust storms and thunderstorms) a forewarning of an impending ecological
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Flood threat looms large over these 10 Indian states
NEW DELHI: Monsoon has just set in and more than 30 people have already died in floods in North East, 20 of them in Assam alone with over half a million marooned. But an assessment by the Union home ministry,
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Flash floods hit Tinsukia
Tinsukia: Waterlogging of arterial roads here in less than an hour of heavy showers on Thursday exposed this Upper Assam town's lack of preparedness to combat flash floods. A portion of busy AT Road,