Koforidua Floods Claim One Life
A woman believed to be in her late 40s drowned Sunday afternoon when a taxicab she was travelling in was swept away by flood at Nkubem, a suburb of Koforidua in the Eastern Region. Three others who...
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Two Die In Koforidua After Heavy Downpour
A taxi was swept into a gutter causing a woman to drown Two people are reported dead after heavy rains ravaged parts of Koforidua in the Eastern Region on Sunday. The town was submerged in flood...
One Dies In New-Juaben Flood
The Taxi was spotted in the flood A female passenger has died when a taxi she was boarding submerged in flood at Nsukwao in the New-Juaben municipality of the Eastern region. The vehicle which had...
Two Die In New-Juaben Flood
The Taxi was spotted in the flood Two persons - a taxi driver and a female passenger - are feared dead when their taxi submerged in flood at Nsukwao in the New-Juaben municipality of the Eastern...
NADMO Introduces Early Warning System On Flooding
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has designed an early warning system to help alert communities in flood-prone areas using mediums such as mobile phone alerts. The initiative...
What A Rain Season Without Rain
In our weather calendar, Uganda has two seasons: wet season and dry season. However, with the increasingly erratic weather conditions engendered by climate change, can we still proudly stand and...
N. Korea Says Floods ‘worst Disaster’ Since WWII
Floods in North Korea that have left hundreds dead or missing are the "worst disaster" to hit the country since World War II, state media said on Wednesday. The official KCNA news agency did not give...
Over A Thousand Displaced Flood Victims Yet To Receive Relief Items
Some displaced residents in recent floods in the Eastern Regional Capital, Koforidua, say they are yet to be given relief items. New Juabeng Coordinator of the National Disaster Management...
Baatsona and Spintex Seriously Flooded
There are reports that parts of Baatsona and Spintex, both suburbs of Accra were heavily flooded after Wednedays rain rainfall in some parts of the city. Images available to citifmonline.com show...
Mexico Dodges Major Hurricane Damage
Hurricane Newton has felled trees and damaged power lines in western Mexico after making landfall near the popular resort of Cabo San Lucas on Tuesday. But it has caused only "minor damage in...
Mexico On Alert As Hurricane Newton Heads For Pacific Coast
A huge storm bearing down on the Pacific coast of Mexico has strengthened to a hurricane just hours before it is due to make landfall. Hurricane Newton is heading north-west towards the southern end...
Florida Coast Battered By Hurricane Hermine
Tropical storm Hermine has made landfall in northern Florida, becoming the first hurricane to hit the state in 11 years. Hermine hit the Florida Gulf Coast early on Friday as a category one...
Two British Climbers Found Dead On Matterhorn
The Matterhorn is in the Alps, on the Swiss-Italian border
The bodies of two British climbers who went missing on Thursday have been found on the Matterhorn, Italian rescue workers have said.
They...
Sickle Cell Disease and Cold Weather
In the United States today, one of every 400 African-American children and one in every 1,250 Hispanic children are born with sickle cell disease, a debilitating, painful condition.
Patients with...
Heavy Rains Displaces Hundreds in Upper East
Heavy rains have affected flood-prone areas of the Upper East Region. Most residents of the Upper East Region are still counting their losses, following Wednesday’s torrential rains that lasted for...
China Floods: More than 150 Killed and Thousands Evacuated
Floods in north and central China have killed at least 150 people, with scores missing and hundreds of thousands forced from homes, officials say. Hebei and Henan provinces are the worst hit by the...
Central Region Floods Kills 10
The Central region has recorded ten rain-related deaths since the rains began in June this year. Two women and an eight year old girl died last week at Kissi Kwahekrom in the Komenda Edina Eguafo...
Ghanaians Should Expect More Rains – Ghana Meteorological Agency
The Ghana Meteorological Agency has predicted more rains in the coming days, following Thursday’s heavy downpour which flooded major parts of the Greater Accra regional capital.
A statement issued...
Accra Sinks in Floods Again
Residents of Accra have been thrown into a state of fear after news broke that parts of the capital have been submerged following heavy downpour in the early hours of today.
According to media...
Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) Warns of Food Shortage in Ghana Dues to Bad Weather
The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) has warned that Ghana may experience shortage of foodstuff if pragmatic measures are not taken to develop irrigation farms due to changes in the weather...