On 30 January, the Ministry of Health in Uganda declared an Ebola outbreak (Sudan virus) following the death of a male nurse at the national referral hospital on 29 January. The outbreak was confirmed by three national laboratory postmortem. About 45 contacts...
Disasters
Alert and Ongoing Disasters
Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi - Jan 2025
On 11 January, tropical cyclone DIKELEDI passed over the far northern Madagascar, on the following day it passed south of Mayotte (France) and Comoros. On 13 January at 6.00 UTC its centre was located offshore over the Mozambique Channel, approximately 75 km...
Tanzania: Marburg Virus Disease Outbreak - Jan 2025
On January 13, WHO informed member states that Tanzania had a suspected outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD). On Monday 20 January, the President of the Republic of Tanzania confirmed during a press briefing that there was an outbreak of Marburg Virus...
Angola: Cholera Outbreak - Jan 2025
In Luanda on January 7th out of 25 suspected cases of cholera, 5 deaths were reported. On January 8th, over 30 suspected cases of cholera were recorded in the same area of Luanda province. The rapid escalation of suspected cases indicates potential for a...
Ethiopia: Earthquakes - Jan 2025
The Fentale volcanic complex in the Main Ethiopian Rift has seen increased seismic activity since October 2024. In late December 2024, earthquake frequency spiked with several magnitude 5 events, accompanied by the opening of steam vents (releasing steam and...
Vanuatu: Earthquake - Dec 2024
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck 30 km west of Port Vila, Vanuatu, on 17 December 2024, at 12:47 PM local time. A tsunami warning was issued but has since been lifted. Search and rescue operations are ongoing at the time of reporting. Preliminary reports...
Philippines: Kanlaon Volcano - Dec 2024
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) raised Alert Level 3 over Mt. Kanlaon (located in Negros Island, around 520 km south of Manila) following an eruption that produced a voluminous plume that rose 3,000 meters above the vent on...
Tropical Cyclone Fengal - Nov 2024
The deep depression in the Bay of Bengal conditions to the northeast of Sri Lanka has caused heavy rains across the country since 23 November 2024. The heavy rainfall along the coastal side, which has continued since 23 November, triggered flash floods in the...
Malaysia: Floods - Nov 2024
At the end of November 2024, Malaysia experienced heavy rainfall attributed to the Northeast Monsoon, resulting in escalating flooding across nine states: Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, Pahang, Negeri Sembilan, Johor, Perak, Melaka and Perlis. The heavy rain...
Gabon: Floods - Nov 2024
On the night of Monday 25 November, torrential rains fell in the communes of Mouila (Ngounié Province), Port-Gentil (Ogooué-Maritime Province), Tchibanga (Nyanga Province) and Grand Libreville (Estuaire Province), causing flooding in the aforementioned...
Cuba: Earthquakes - Nov 2024
Two main earthquakes, magnitudes 5.9 M and 6.8 M respectively, at a depth of 14 km occurred on 10 November at 15:50 UTC (10:50 local time) and at 16:49 UTC (11:49 local time) over the sea with a distance of 8 km from the south-eastern coast of Cuba. The...
Haiti: Floods - Nov 2024
From November 10 to 12, 2024, torrential rains fell across the entire Sud department, causing severe flooding. The municipalities of Les Cayes, Torbeck, Port-Salut and Saint-Louis du Sud are among the most affected. According to the DGPC, 3,558 families have...
Colombia: Floods - Nov 2024
The Colombian government has declared a national state of emergency for the second time this year due to heavy rains and floods, primarily impacting Chocó and La Guajira. In Chocó, flooding from the Atrato, San Juan and Baudó rivers has affected more than...
South Sudan: Cholera Outbreak - Oct 2024
The Ministry of Health has declared a cholera outbreak today in Renk, Upper Nile State. This declaration comes after reports of 44 suspected cholera cases, and six laboratory-confirmed cases on 23 October 2024 in Renk, Upper Nile State. As of 27 October 2024,...
Typhoon Kong-Rey - Oct 2024
Super Typhoon Kong-Rey (locally known as Leon) entered the PAR on 26 October. It passed over the far northern region of Luzon, affecting some of the remote islands in the area. Leon brought typhoon-strong winds, heavy rain, flooding, and landslides to the...
Ghana: Cholera Outbreak - Oct 2024
The cholera outbreak began on October 4, 2024, when the first case was recorded after an individual exhibiting cholera-like symptoms sought medical care following attendance at a funeral in the Ada East District. The epidemic spread to 36 districts across...
Typhoon Yagi - Sep 2024
On 7 September, Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit the South China Sea in 30 years, made landfall in northern Viet Nam. The storm caused widespread damage in multiple provinces, with Quang Ninh and Hai Phong provinces, where wind speeds reached 213...
Cameroon: Floods - Aug 2024
Severe flooding in Cameroon's Far North region has affected over 158,620 people, including 38,069 women of reproductive age and 4,133 pregnant women. The hardest-hit areas are Mayo-Tsanaga, Mayo-Danay, and Logone-and-Chari divisions, with significant damage...
Nigeria: Floods - Aug 2024
In the early hours of August 20, 2024, the Kiri Dam in Tudun Tsira, Shelleng LGA, Adamawa State, breached its banks, resulting in severe flooding across the communities of Kwakwambe, Lure, Nbalang, Imburu, and Bare in the Numan Local Government Area. The...
Chad: Floods - Aug 2024
The humanitarian impact of the widespread flooding caused by rainfall and strong winds that has been affecting central and south-western Chad since mid-May is increasing. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), as of 7...
Guinea: Floods - Jul 2024
During the night of July 29 to 30, 2024, heavy rainfall caused flooding and severe damage in 14 neighborhoods of the urban commune of Siguiri and 4 surrounding sub-prefectures. [...] The flood on July 30, 2024, wreaked havoc across more than 23 localities,...
Sudan: Floods - Jul 2024
Initial reports indicate that an estimated 10,180 people, most of whom are newly arrived IDPs from Sennar State, have been affected by recent heavy rains and flooding in Kassala State. [...] Heavy rains and flooding have also affected an unspecified number of...
Bolivia: Wild Fires - Jul 2024
On 24 July 2024, the Bolivia Ministry of Defense (MINDEF per its acronym in Spanish) published information on wildfires occurring in Bolivia. MINDEF is reporting 11,576 hotspots distributed throughout the national territory (6,671 increase since the 17 July...
Mali: Floods - Jul 2024
Since 22 July, Bla town, in Segou region (central Mali), has been experiencing days with heavy rainfall, causing floods that have resulted in damage. According to UN OCHA, as of 29 July, 8,700 people have been affected in the aforementioned town. Regional...
Hurricane Beryl - Jun 2024
Tropical cyclone Beryl has become a major hurricane forecast to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center. The hurricane headed toward the Windward Islands (Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the...
Bangladesh: Floods and Landslides - Jun 2024
On 18 and 19 June, heavy monsoon rainfall impacted the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh causing flash floods and 773 landslides incidents, resulting in casualties and damage. According to humanitarian partners, as of 19 June, 10 people...
Liberia: Floods - Jun 2024
According to Liberia’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), recent unprecedented floods in Liberia have killed two people and displaced nearly 50,000. The torrential rains on 28 June displaced 8,000 people, and severely damaged homes, schools, and...
Niger: Floods - Jun 2024
As of 11 June, 26 communes across Niger have been affected by heavy rainfall and floods. The worst affected communes include 15 in Maradi in the south-central part of the country, five in Tahoua in the west, three in Tillabéri in the southwestern, two in...
Burkina Faso: Floods - May 2024
Since April, there have been floods in several parts of the country, the worst of which occurred in Boulsa in the province of Namentenga, in the Centre-Nord region. On the night of 29 May 2024, the town of Boulsa was hit by torrential rain between 8pm and...
Myanmar: Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) Outbreak - May 2024
The military-controlled Ministry of Health has confirmed the presence of cholera in Yangon in an official statement. As of 17 July, there are 77 confirmed cases of hospitalisation. According to other reports, cholera cases have also been identified in...
Namibia: Drought - May 2024
On 22 May, the Government of Namibia declared the State of Emergency following the worst drought that the country has experienced in 100 years. According to media reports, every one in five Namibians is considered food insecure. Against the backdrop of scarce...
Lesotho: Drought - Apr 2024
According to the weather update for quarter 1 of 2024 issued by the Lesotho Meteorological Services, the persistent heatwaves and exceptionally high temperatures experienced between January and March 2024 have led to widespread dryness of crops across most...
Somalia: Floods - Apr 2024
The Gu (April to June) rains intensified with flash floods reported since 19 April. Four people, three boys in Somaliland and a six-year-old girl in Hirshabelle State were reportedly killed; about 100 shelters for displaced people destroyed and at least 134...
Yemen: Floods - Apr 2024
Rain started on 16th April 2024 and continued, which caused flooding during the week of 20th April 2024. Hadramawt Governorate experienced significant repercussions due to intense rainfall and ensuing floods. Particularly, the IDP camps situated within the...
Zimbabwe: Drought - Apr 2024
Following the severe impacts of the El Nino induced drought which affected more than 80% of the country resulting in significantly below-normal harvest, the country declared the 2023-2024 agriculture season a state of national disaster at the beginning of...
Malawi: Drought - Mar 2024
About nine million people in Malawi are reeling from the devastating impacts of El Niño-induced floods and drought, which are destroying harvests and causing hunger to soar to crisis levels ... An El Niño-induced drought has severely affected this season’s...
Zambia: Drought - 2024-2025
The dry spell has from mid-January this year affected most of the central and southern half of the country, which has received less than normal rainfall leaving 1 million hectares of maize destroyed, almost half of the country’s maize cultivation. It is also...
Burundi: Floods and Landslides - Oct 2023
Intense rainfall of 26 to 27 October resulting in strong winds and floods that affected Cibitoke. Other floods were reported earlier but from assessment done by NS on 2 November, Cibitoke remains the most affected so far. 1,590 people are identified as...
Syria: Drought - 2021-2024
Since autumn 2020, unseasonably low levels of rainfall across the eastern region of the Mediterranean Basin, have contributed to drought conditions in Syria and Iraq. Given the country's semi-arid climate, the annual water balance is determined by...
Afghanistan: Drought - 2021-2025
Afghanistan has been experiencing below-normal rainfall since October 2020. Such conditions are expected to continue through the first half of 2021 in the country according to forecasters. The conditions have affected the winter season snow accumulation,...
Madagascar: Drought - 2018-2024
Severe drought conditions during southern Madagascar’s rainy season from November 2017 to April 2018 have led to nearly dry dams in many parts of the south. This dryness has affected livestock’s access to water and pastureland, which has led to poor livestock...
Kenya: Drought - 2014-2024
In January 2014, the Government of Kenya declared an impending drought with an estimated 1.6 million people affected. After a poor performance of the long rains between March and May 2014 in the arid and semi-arid zones, the drought situation continued to...
DR Congo: Cholera and Measles Outbreaks - Jan 2013
While the last major cholera outbreak in DR Congo's western provinces was in 2011, cholera is endemic in the eastern provinces, which experienced a resurgence of cases starting in July 2012. Over the course of 2013, ongoing violence and displacement in North...