Overall Green alert Flood for Rwanda
in Rwanda

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1100347
Death: 19
Displaced: -
Countries: Rwanda
From - To 02 Feb - 04 Feb

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Rwanda - Floods and mudslides update (ECHO 05 Feb 2020)Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:59

  • Heavy rain continued to affect central Rwanda (particularly the Kigali and the Southern Provinces) over the past 72 hours, triggering floods and mudslides.
  • Media report, 19 fatalities (14 in the capital Kigali and 5 in southern provinces). Media report 8 injured people, 98 houses destroyed, 3 roads and 2 bridges damaged.
  • Over the next 24 hours, more rain and thunderstorms are forecast over the whole country, with locally heavy rain over the Kigali and southern provinces.
Rwanda, February 2020Stormy weather and heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides in parts of Rwanda, in particular areas around the capital Kigali. On 03 February, the Ministry of Emergency Management reported 13 fatalities, 15 houses destroyed and 2 people injured.Sun 2 Feb 2020FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Latest media headlines

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

New international construction technology enters RwandanMon, 03 Feb 2020 23:22:00 +0100.

Rwandans are set to benefit from low cost-housing made out of a new construction technology “Earthbag”, that is currently used in different countries in Asia, USA and Europe. Earthbag construction (building with polypropylene bags usually
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World Vision East Africa Region Situation Report | December 1 December ... Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:18:00 +0100.

Key messages. Floods: According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET), the greater horn of Africa region received up to 300 per cent above average rainfall from October to mid-November 2019. In Kenya, flooding affected 160,0
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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),