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Green Flood alert in Nigeria from 02/08/2012 00:00 UTC to 06/08/2012 23:59 UTC
GDACS Event Report - Summary

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

Updated: this report is based on update number 250.

  • Flood Magnitude 5.10
  • from 02/08/2012 00:00 UTC to 06/08/2012 23:59 UTC
  • 0 killed and 3000 displaced

References

Latest media headlines

Articles: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Mali: Pastoralism - Between Resilience and Survival
Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:59:00 +0200   allafrica (en)

[IRIN]Mopti/Bamako -Hundreds of pastoralists in the Mopti Region of central Mali are stuck between floodplains to the south and armed Islamists and rebels to the north. They are used to the hardship of successive droughts across the Sahel, but with little or no aid for their animals and severely....

People and organisations: Internationaal Comité  United Nations  Food and Agriculture Organization  Social Welfare  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees  Oxfam  Ansar Dine  Red Cross  European Union 

MALI: Pastoralism – between resilience and survival
Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:05:00 +0200   globalsecurity (en)

Hundreds of pastoralists in the Mopti Region of central Mali are stuck between floodplains to the south and armed Islamists and rebels to the north. They are used to the hardship of successive droughts across the Sahel, but with little or no aid for their animals and severely limited access to....

People and organisations: Internationaal Comité  United Nations  Food and Agriculture Organization  Social Welfare  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees  Oxfam  Ansar Dine  Member States  Red Cross  European Union 

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