Tag:rainstorm

Climate Change

Kofi Adu Domfeh: Amidst the heatwaves arrive the rainstorm and floods

April 2024 has been the hottest record month. Yet the transition from the scorching heatwaves to the heavy rains has been seamless as “hot”...

Michael Simire - May 9, 2024

Disaster Risk Management

2,000 feared dead in Libya floods after rainstorm

Libya has asked for international help with around 2,000 people feared dead after a massive flood ripped through the city of Derna following a...

Michael Simire - September 12, 2023

Disaster Risk Management

Rainstorm throws Ilorin in darkness

The lbadan Electricity Distribution Company (lBEDB) says it has lost more than 96 electricity poles to rainstorm that occured on Saturday, March 13, 2021...

Michael Simire - March 16, 2021

Cover

Colombia landslide kills over 250

Flooding and mudslides in Mocoa, Colombia, sent torrents of water and debris crashing onto houses in the early hours of Saturday morning, killing 254...

admin - April 2, 2017

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Minor dead, 100 homes destroyed in Sokoto windstorm

The combined effect of heavy rains and windstorm that occurred Friday night killed three-year-old Sharif Bashir and destroyed about 100 houses in Tudun-Yando village...

admin - August 27, 2016