Authorities say the death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two weeks ago has risen to 101, with a 12-month-old baby the youngest fatality.

Cape Town floods displace thousands, devastate informal settlements. Aid is distributed, but recovery is slow amid blocked ...

On Sept. 13, 2024, Paul Atanga Nji, Cameroon’s minister of territorial administration, visited the victims of the deadly floods that claimed some 40 lives in the Far North Region of the country.

Johannesburg, South Africa — The death toll from flooding brought by days of torrential rain along South Africa's east coast has risen to more than 300. President Cyril Ramaphosa was met with ...

DURBAN, South Africa -- Communities in Durban, South Africa, are still sifting through debris, trying to salvage the little they can save after devastating floods killed almost 450 people and ...

Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 341 people in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, and more rainstorms are forecast.

PRETORIA, South Africa -- The South African National Defense Force has been called up to assist in the clean-up operations on the country’s flood-ravaged east coast. At least 443 people have ...

ABUJA – West African floods have displaced at least 2.4 million people, killed about 1,000 and are devastating crops in a region that is already short of food and plagued by insecurity, ...

Floods in Africa that are displacing millions of people from Guinea on the west coast to the Central African Republic more than 2,000 miles to the east are prompting warnings of dam bursts and ...

In 2018 alone – up to September 15 – based on conservative estimates, flooding across Sub-Saharan Africa has destroyed more than 10,000 homes and affected more than 2m people. A heavy price to pay ...