Authorities say the death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two ...

Severe flooding in South Africa's Eastern Cape province has claimed 101 lives, including a baby, with two children missing.

Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers Foundation has been called out to multiple flooded areas in the Western Cape.

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa was under a declared state of national disaster on Thursday as the death toll from floods caused ...

Adamu Yusuf's life has been upended since he lost nine of his family members in Tiffin Maza, one of two communities in his ...

Torrential rains in Mokwa, Nigeria, have caused severe flooding, killing at least 111 people. The disaster highlights the urgent need for infrastructure improvements.

Widespread devastation in many parts of West and Central Africa In Niger, it was the worst floods in 20 years, leading to the deaths of at least 391 people, affecting over 1.4 million others, ...

Widespread flooding in West and Central Africa has affected more than 4 million people, caused extensive damage to homes, schools, health facilities and swaths of farmland, heightening the risk of ...

Floods in mostly arid Niger have impacted over 841,000 people, killing hundreds and displacing more than 400,000. Harira Adamou, a 50-year-old single mother of six, is one of them.

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region. Dyepkazah Shibayan, Monika Pronczuk.

Climatic shocks like these floods only worsen food insecurity, malnutrition, and overall instability," Modou Diaw, the West Africa Vice President for the IRC, said in the statement. The Flip Side ...

Thousands have lost their homes and livelihoods in a region already beset by food insecurity. "These severe floods add a complicating layer in a region where conflict and violence already make life so ...