Overall Orange alert Flood
in Tanzania

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1102555
Glide number: FL-2024-000058-TZA
Death: 169
Displaced: 1660
Countries: Tanzania
From - To 28 Mar - 28 Apr

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Tanzania - Floods and landslides, update (ECHO 26 Apr 2024)Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:35

  • Heavy rainfall continues to affect most of Tanzania (in particular Dodoma and Dar es Salaam city areas) since early April, causing floods, flash floods and triggering landslides that have resulted in casualties and widespread damage.
  • Media report, as of 26 April, 155 fatalities, 236 injured people, more than 200,000 affected people and approximately 10,000 damaged and destroyed buildings (included many schools) across the country. In addition, several roads and bridges have been damaged.
  • Over the next 24 hours, more heavy rainfall with locally very heavy rainfall is still forecasted over most of the country.
Tanzania, April 2024Local media, quoting police sources, reported fatalities after heavy rain, flooding and landslides in various parts of Tanzania from early April 2024. IFRC reported severe flooding in Pwani Region.Thu 11 Apr 2024FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 125 | About casualties: 88 | Last hour: 0

Aumentan a 45 los muertos en Kenia al reventar una presa por las lluvi ... 2024-04-30T18:26+0200.

Al menos 45 personas murieron este lunes al reventar los muros de una presa en el sur de Kenia que arrasó cientos de casas y vehículos, mientras el país lidia con los efectos de semanas de fuertes lluvias y devastadoras inundaciones, inform
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Kenya floods: Scores missing after weeks of heavy rain2024-04-30T17:45+0200.

The CNN team said the body of a young man was pulled from flood debris earlier Tuesday in the same area after the ringing of a cell phone prompted neighbors to start digging. They say it took residents hours of digging Monday and Tuesday to
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Scores missing as Kenya ravaged by mass flooding2024-04-30T17:01+0200.

At least 91 people are missing after heavy flooding across Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the government said Tuesday, after weeks of heavy rain and flash floods ravaged parts of the country. Some 76 people are missing after flooding near the ha
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With shovels, rescuers search for rising number of Kenya flood victims2024-04-30T14:36+0200.

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Rescuers were digging through mud with shovels on Tuesday to recover victims' bodies as the number of people still missing rose steadily after rains triggered heavy flooding and landslides across Kenya. At least 48 people
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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),