Overall Green alert Flood
in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1101761
Death: 0
Displaced: 13861
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo
From - To 25 Nov - 03 Dec

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Northern Congo-Brazzaville, December 2022 to January 2023Flooding worsened in the north of Congo-Brazzaville after several rivers in the region rose sharply in early December 2022. Congo Red Cross reported government damage assessments carried out in mid-December showed 164,679 people affected across 23 districts in the departments of Cuvette, Likouala, Plateaux, and Sangha.Wed 4 Jan 2023FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Myanmar military arrests 2 journalists from friendly media2022-11-23T17:29+0100.

The reporter who spoke on condition of anonymity said it was unclear why Zaw Min Oo, who was at the news conference, was arrested on the same day. The Democratic Voice of Burma, an online and radio news agency that is critical of the milita
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AP News Summary at 1:22 a.m. EST2022-11-22T07:31+0100.

CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers are searching for bodies and survivors in the rubble of buildings that collapsed in an earthquake that killed at least 162 people on Indonesia’s main island of Java and injured hundreds more, overwhelming
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Floods and landslides kill at least 20 in the DRC2022-11-20T02:31+0100.

2022-11-20T01:28:54.975Z. At least thirteen deaths have been recorded in an artisanal gold mining site in North Kivu The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is bereaved by a natural disaster. At least twenty people have died in t
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Unintended consequences: Local conservation authorities respond to 'bu ... 2022-11-17T12:54+0100.

Article content. She has questions about who would bear the liability for a development that is subject to flooding because of an ill-informed decision. “People have to ask themselves who they want to make planning decisions — a mayor and t
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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),