One week after heavy torrential rains hit South Africa, rescue operators have recorded a death toll of at least 443 people, with at least 63 others still missing. Heavy flood engulfed the KwaZulu-Natal province in the port city of Durban last week, pulling buildings and people along with it. Official data from government agencies shared that […]Read More
The World Bank has projected that the number of poor people in Sub-Saharan African countries can hit 463.6 million in 2022. This, the apex bank said, is due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine. The projection was made through research by a group of World Bank economists, with the findings published […]Read More
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said over 80,000 refugees and 3.2 million internally displaced persons were in Nigeria and in dire need of help. It said most Nigerians were unaware that the country was hosting over 80,000 refugees, particularly in the southern states, as the bulk of the refugees were from Cameroon. […]Read More
The National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) has announced the death of at least 53 persons after tropical Cyclone Gombe hit Mozambique last week. The institute announced another 80 people were injured and 400,000 affected since the cyclone swept into northern and central areas of the country, flooding towns and destroying houses. Additional data also […]Read More
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics have disclosed that no fewer than 6,205 persons died in road accidents in 2021. In its Road Transport Data reports, NBS said that on a quarterly basis, road accidents killed a total of 1,668 people in Q1 2021; 1,453 persons in Q2; 1,432 persons in Q3; and 1,652 […]Read More
The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has placed the total losses suffered by the North East as a result of terrorism at about $6.9 billion. Zulum said the losses so far included over 5000 destroyed classrooms, 900,000 homes burnt beyond repairs, 713 damaged energy distribution sources, as well as 1600 destroyed public water sources, among […]Read More
An intense tropical storm tagged Cyclone Batsirai has struck several villagers in Madagascar, sweeping away the homes of over 48,000 people with a death toll of at least 10 people, the country’s office of disaster and risk management reports. Among the regions heavily affected by the storm is the small town of Ambalavao, about 460km (286 […]Read More
Local authorities have reported the death of at least 26 people on Wednesday after an overhead high-voltage cable fell into a drainage ditch at a market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital Kinshasa. Charles Mbutamuntu, the spokesman for the Kinshasa provincial government revealed that the cable snapped and the live end of it […]Read More
Over 70 people have reportedly died following torrents of rain that hit three southern African countries after making landfall on Monday. Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi were all affected. According to varying reports, Tropical Storm Ana first made landfall Monday in Madagascar before ploughing into Mozambique and Malawi, causing buildings to collapse due to landslides. Madagascar […]Read More
Latest report by Transparency International has shown that Nigeria has dropped one place in the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranking. The country scored 24 out of 100 points in the 2021 index, which was revealed on TI’s official Twitter handle, @TranperencITng. It is Nigeria’s second consecutive year of a downward spiral on the TI’s […]Read More
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