Overall Green Flood in Namibia from 15 Mar 2011 00:00 UTC to 19 Apr 2011 23:59 UTC

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Overall Green Flood

in Namibia

Event summary

Flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	FL 3798
Death:	62
Displaced:	10000
Countries:	Namibia
From - To	15 Mar - 19 Apr

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Namibia: Flood Fund Confusion 5/3/2011 2:05:00 PM.

A showdown is looming between the Flood Emergency Coordinating Office (FEMCO) and the Oshana Regional Disaster Management Committee (RDRMC).

Namibia: Adversity Always Creates Opportunity- We Must Just Look for i.. 4/29/2011 2:50:00 PM.

A small delegation of Cuban engineers is in the North to take some preliminary notes on the practicality of draining certain key areas of the Cuvelai delta. This is no small undertaking as it is patently obvious that there is too much water

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Namibia: Understanding Weather - Not Predicting 4/29/2011 2:50:00 PM.

analysis What happened? Despite it being the end of April, a summer pattern prevails assisted by air-flows from a westerly to north-westerly direction in both lower and middle levels. But as observation shows, convective ability decreases w

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¦ President Pohamba’s state of the nation add... 4/29/2011 11:02:00 AM.

Generic studies of texts consider the structure and content of messages and place them into distinct classes. Each of these classes exerts a constraint on both the speaker/writer and the audience. In each case, the genre has a specific stru

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