Overall Orange alert Flood
in Tanzania

Event summary

This flood can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1102555
Glide number: FL-2024-000058-TZA
Death: 169
Displaced: 1660
Countries: Tanzania
From - To 28 Mar - 28 Apr

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Tanzania - Floods and landslides, update (ECHO 26 Apr 2024)Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:35

  • 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.
Tanzania, April 2024Local media, quoting police sources, reported fatalities after heavy rain, flooding and landslides in various parts of Tanzania from early April 2024. IFRC reported severe flooding in Pwani Region.Thu 11 Apr 2024FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 185 | About casualties: 106 | Last hour: 3

In a first, an orangutan was seen treating his wound with a medicinal ... 2024-05-02T17:08+0200.

An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the treetops of a rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia; a day later, they spotted Rakus sporting a pink wound below his right
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Kenyans search for bodies of flood victims2024-05-02T16:43+0200.

STORY: Eunice Wanjiku scoured where her cousin Anne Mumbi's house once stood on Wednesday (May 1) after devastating floods destroyed her home in Mai Mahiu, Kenya. "For example, this is her child's jacket, that's her mattress, that is her br
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May 2, 2024 Visitors stranded at Kenya’s Maasai Mara nature reserve, a ... 2024-05-02T15:40+0200.

But local administrators went even further in their warnings, threatening legal consequences for people still left behind, even accusing those who stay of attempting suicide. “We will forcefully evacuate anybody left in any homes or lodges
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Kenya flood toll rises to 181 as homes and roads are destroyed2024-05-02T11:36+0200.

NAIROBI: Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government and Red Cross said on Wednesday, as dozens more were killed in neighbouring Tanzania and
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),