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Affected countries: Namibia
Following a prolonged dry period during the 2012/13 cropping season (November-June), Namibia's main cereal crop output for 2013 is expected to suffer a severe decline. In some parts, the cumulative rains between January and March were approximately one-third of the average and a 50 per cent below...
Affected countries: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
On 14 May, Cyclone Mahasen brought heavy rains and landslides to Sri Lanka, with seven people confirmed dead and 3,881 people displaced due to the resulting heavy rains and landslides. In Bangladesh, following the raising of warning signals to 7 from a possible 10 (expecting severe weather) for Cox...
Affected countries: Uganda
On 18 Apr 2013, the Uganda Ministry of Health reported an outbreak of cholera in the eastern districts of Hoima, Nebbi and Buliisa. Since the beginning of 2013 the cumulative number of cases reported from the cholera affected districts has reached 216 cases and seven deaths. The overall case...
Affected countries: Uganda
Heavy rains at the beginning of May 2013 caused the banks of the Nyamwamba river to burst, which resulted in flooding in Western Uganda's Kasese district. Eight people have been confirmed dead, and over 25,000 have been affected. The flooding has caused widespread destruction of houses, crops and...
Affected countries: India
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Jammu and Kashmir state in India on 1 May 2013, followed by a number of aftershocks. Over 12,000 houses were damaged, leaving at least an equal number of families in need of temporary shelter. (...
Affected countries: Marshall Islands
The Government declared a state of emergency for the northern Marshall Islands on 19 Apr 2013 due to a prolonged dry season and severe drought experienced in Wotje and the atolls north of Majuro. On 8 May, the state of emergency was elevated to a state of drought disaster for a period of 30 days....
Affected countries: Ecuador
Starting in January 2013, seasonal rains have caused flooding and landslides in various parts of Ecuador. The most affected provinces are Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Esmeraldas, Manabí, El Oro, Chimborazo, Pichincha, Guayas, Imbabura, Tungurahua, Los Ríos, Carchi, Orellana, Morona Santiago,...
Affected countries: Somalia
Several parts of Somalia - especially the south - have been affected by flooding following heavy rains across Somalia and the Ethiopian highlands starting with the beginning of the rainy season in April 2013. Flash floods in Wanlaweyn district in Lower Shabelle led to loss of property, damage to...
Affected countries: Afghanistan
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck 24 kilometers northwest of the Nangarhar provincial capital Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border on 24 Apr 2013. The quake killed 18 people, injured 141 and damaged 676 houses. (...
Affected countries: Ethiopia
Heavy rains in several areas across Ethiopia caused flooding starting in mid-April 2013. As of 22 Apr, more than 9,000 households were affected in the Somali region and more than 1,300 households in the Oromia region and SNNPR. The floods caused displacement, damage to infrastructures and loss of...
Affected countries: China
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Lushan county of Ya'an city in south China's Sichuan Province on 20 Apr 2013. The earthquake's epicenter was monitored near Lushan county at a depth of 13 kms. As of 23 Apr, 2013, 196 people are reported dead and 12,211 injured; 25 are still missing and more than 245,...
Affected countries: Ghana
Severe rainstorms in Ghana's Northern and Volta regions started in the first week of March 2013 and continued for close to two weeks. The ensuing floods resulted in the displacement of populations, loss of property and farm produce. Between 23,000 and 25,000 people have been affected. The...
Affected countries: Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan
An earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter scale occurred in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in south-eastern in Iran, 78 km from the border with Pakistan, on 16 Apr 2013. According to the latest media reports, 34 people were killed and some 80 people were injured in Pakistan. (...
Affected countries: Solomon Islands
Since January 2013, approximately 1,970 suspected and confirmed dengue cases have been reported,
resulting in three deaths. More than 1,800 of the cases have been reported in Honiara, the capital of
Solomon Islands, while the others are in the provinces of Guadalcanal and Gizo. There has been a...
Affected countries: Congo
The heavy downpour of 17 and 18 Nov 2012 caused widespread destruction of the drainage system, overflowed wells and latrines as well as stagnant water in Pointe Noire, the second largest city in the Republic of Congo. A few weeks after...
Affected countries: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
An earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale occurred near the Gulf port city of Bushehr in south-eastern Iran on 9 Apr 2013 at 16:22 local time (11:52 GMT). The epicentre was in the Kaki area, approximately 90 kilometres southeast of Bushehr. 35 people were killed and about 800 were injured...
Affected countries: Argentina
A severe local storm on the night of 2 Apr 2013 caused heavy flooding in La Plata, the capital of the Buenos Aires province in Argentina. The flooding affected over 350,000 people, led to mass evacuations and caused 52 deaths. (...
Affected countries: Kenya
Isolated, torrential rainfall as part of the Long Rains season caused flooding in several parts of Kenya from the middle of March 2013 onward. The worst affected areas include the Marsabit and Isiolo provinces, where heavy rains have triggered floods leading to damages to infrastructure, and...
Affected countries: Madagascar
An outbreak of locusts started in the south of Madagascar in April 2012. As the situation deteriorated, the Ministry of Agriculture of Madagascar declared a national disaster on 27 Nov and requested technical and financial assistance from FAO in December. In the following months, the locust plague...
Affected countries: Georgia
On 24 Mar 2013, strong wind and storms affected the eastern and western parts of Georgia. 350 houses were damaged and the roofs of about 20 schools were broken or ripped off. Tens of thousands of households were left without electricity in various parts of the country. (...
