3310 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://allafrica.com/stories/201104010750.htmlAt the end of a very wet quarter, it is appropriate to look at the economic impact of adverse weather.Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:55:00 +0200allafrica-9e53cf29838db7925b58dd4336d49d3f20110402085500http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/VVOS-8FHKB5?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FSNAMIBIA: Floods cause an emergency JOHANNESBURG, 1 April 2011 (IRIN) - Namibia has declared a state of emergency in response to widescale flooding in the north that has claimed 62 lives since January 2011.Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:09:00 +0200reliefWeb-latestUpdates-a6baca876f186c9fdf03f5b23941ee3220110401200900http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/namibia-floods-cause-an-emergency"The most severe flooding is occurring in the regions of Oshana, Ohangwena, Omusati and Oshikoto, which form the Cuvelai Basin," said a situation report by the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator on 30 March 2011. The Cuvelai Basin, in northern Namibia, is one of the country's most densely populated regions, as well as one of its poorest.Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:30:00 +0200trust-e26782fc4f544c78b44114592ea480d020110401193000http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=92343JOHANNESBURG 01 April 2011 (IRIN) - Namibia has declared a state of emergency in response to widescale flooding in the north that has claimed 62 lives since January 2011.Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:10:00 +0200irinnews-72c725faa12c9f04d59c8d8a84b1cce520110401161000