Floods in Africa have led to large losses of life over many decades. In recent years, the effects of floods have been exacerbated by climate change.
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2007 African floods
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2009 West Africa floods
The 2009 West Africa floods are a natural disaster that began in June 2009 as a consequence of exceptionally heavy seasonal rainfall in large areas of West Africa.
Several rivers, including the Pendjari, Niger, Volta and Senegal rivers, broke ...
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2010 West African floods
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2015 Southeast Africa floods
The 2015 Southeast Africa floods, partially related to 2014–15 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season#Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Bansi, Cyclone Bansi and Tropical Storm Chedza, killed at least 176 people in Malawi, 86 in Mozambique, and at l ...
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2018 East Africa floods
The 2018 East Africa Floods were a natural disaster in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Djibouti, and Burundi affecting millions of people. They began when excessive rains began falling in March 2018 following a year of severe drought, ...
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2020 East Africa floods
The 2020 East Africa floods were a natural disaster in Rwanda, Kenya, Somalia, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti and Tanzania, affecting at least 700,000 people. They began when excessive rains began falling in ...
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2020 African Sahel floods
The 2020 African Union, African Sahel floods were extreme floods that struck numerous West, East, and Central African countries in August and September 2020 due to extreme weather, extreme rainfall. Over 760,000 people in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, C ...
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2022 Africa floods
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2023 Africa floods
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Floods in South Sudan
Floods in South Sudan are a frequent occurrence, with the country's location in the Nile River Basin and its low-lying topography making it highly vulnerable to floods. Floods in South Sudan have been recorded since the 1960s, and their impacts hav ...
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List of Sudan floods
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Climate change in Africa
Climate change in Africa is an increasingly serious threat in Africa which is among the most vulnerable continents to the effects of climate change.Niang, I., O.C. Ruppel, M.A. Abdrabo, A. Essel, C. Lennard, J. Padgham, and P. Urquhart, 2014: Af ...
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Water scarcity in Africa
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