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At least 4 people have died in flash floods that struck in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, 24 April 2020. Several people have been injured.
The flooding caused widespread damages to homes and infrastructure, although full damage assessments are yet to be completed. Two of the fatalities occurred when homes collapsed. Flooding struck after heavy rain caused the normally dry Dachata River that runs through the city to overflow.
A landslide caused by heavy rain struck in the municipality of Argelia in southern Cauca early on 25 April, 2020. One house was destroyed and others badly damaged. One person was injured.
Torrential rain caused flash flooding in other parts of the department earlier this month. On 16 April, flood waters raged through the streets of Santander de Quilichao, causing damage to homes and material possessions.
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© Vincent McDermott/Fort McMurray Today/Postmedia NetworkFlood waters cover a trailer park on Monday, April 27, 2020.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray, ordered mandatory evacuations of some residents that began on Sunday and were expanded on Monday. Ice jams caused the Athabasca River to spill its banks.
Canada's Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, said the federal government was looking "very urgently" at ways to help the area.
"The fact that flooding season and in due course, forest fire season, is coinciding with coronavirus in Canada is posing some special challenges," Freeland said Monday in Ottawa.
The area, like most of Canada, is subject to restrictions on movement and most businesses are closed.
Wood Buffalo Mayor Don Scott described the situation as a "crisis" on social media, and he has asked for military help.
People inspect damage caused by floods on a street in Aden, Yemen
"Countless families have lost everything," said Ms. Lise Grande, Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen.
"This tragedy comes on top of the COVID-19 crisis, which comes on top of the pre-famine last year, which came on top of the worst cholera outbreak in modern history."
Aden, Abyan, Lahj, Marib and Sana'a governorates and Sana'a City have been worst affected.
Flooding has damaged roads, bridges and the electricity grid, and contaminated water supplies, cutting access to basic services for thousands of people. Conditions are hardest for thousands of families already displaced who have now lost shelter, food rations and household supplies.
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Apparently, the damming of the waters in the upper part of the river caused the flood. "Since the flood took place during the day, people were alert and we had no human losses," said the Mayor of Bolivar, Wilson Gamboa Sedano. The flood took place on Sunday affecting the villages of Puerto Pacheco, Pozo Tortuga, and Horta Medio, located in an area bordering this region's Magdalena medio valley.
Djibouti city and surrounding areas were the worst affected after flash flooding struck on 21 April after overnight heavy rain. The UN in Djibouti said initial estimates indicate that some 18,000 households (approximately 110,000 persons) were affected across Djibouti city and its suburb of Balbala.
The fatalities occurred when a house was washed away by the floodwater. The house was situated near a seasonal river (oued) that separates Djibouti town from Balbala
In a report of 21 April, the UN in Djibouti said: "in the night between 20 and 21 April, Djibouti city received 80 mm of rainfall in few hours (half of the annual average), triggering widespread flash floods. Heavy rains also occurred in other areas of the country, causing some damages. In Arta province some 100 mm of rainfall were recorded in the same time span in Damerjog, Chebelley; 110 mm in Iskoutir; and 80mm in PK20. In ali Sabieh province, the capital received 60mm of rainfall, and the refugee village of Ali Addeh 70mm."
© OSCAR KAKAI /NATION MEDIA GROUPFamilies seek refuge on dry ground with their belongings on the Kisumu-Kericho highway after flood waters marooned their homes in Kobura, Nyando, Kisumu County, on April 21, 2020.
Homes have been marooned and residents lack basic necessities like food and bedding, amid fears of an outbreak of waterborne diseases.
In Kericho County, three children died in two separate incidents when mudslides hit Kipkelion West on Monday evening, while in Migori, a 28-year-old woman and her two children died when their house caved in.
© EPAVehicles drive through a flooded street following heavy rains in Sana'a, Yemen
Dr Jamal Khadabakhish director of public health in Aden, told The National that the huge floods resulted in three deaths and 27 injuries among residents of Al Mualla district.
And four people from one family died as their house in Sirah district, in southern Aden, collapsed on them.
"There are many other casualties in the northern districts of Dar Saad and Al Sheikh Othman," Dr Khadabakhish said.
Comment: Deadly flooding strikes Yemen's Aden killing at least 10