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Tanzania - Floods and landslides, update (ECHO 26 Apr 2024)
Pubdate: 4/26/2024 9:35:23 AM

Heavy rainfall continues to affect most of Tanzania (in particular Dodoma and Dar es Salaam city areas) since early April, causing floods, flash floods and triggering landslides that have resulted in casualties and widespread damage.
Media report, as of 26 April, 155 fatalities, 236 injured people, more than 200,000 affected people and approximately 10,000 damaged and destroyed buildings (included many schools) across the country. In addition, several roads and bridges have been damaged.
Over the next 24 hours, more heavy rainfall with locally very heavy rainfall is still forecasted over most of the country.

(4/26/2024 9:37:06 AM - 4/27/2024 9:30:06 AM)

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