SOCIETES ET INONDATIONS

 

 

Inondation à Bujumbura en 2006 (photo Hanif July)

INONDATIONS EN JANVIER 2015 DANS LE NORD DU MOZAMBIQUE (Le Monde.fr)

 

 

Quarante-cinq personnes, dont vingt-et-un enfants, étaient portées disparues mercredi 14 janvier au Mozambique, selon les médias locaux, suite à des inondations dans le centre et le nord du pays. Dans la province du Zambèze, où le fleuve Licungo est sorti de son lit, la situation est « dramatique », a déclaré sur Radio Mozambique un porte-parole de la direction nationale mozambicaine des eaux. La saison des pluies au Mozambique s'étale généralement d'octobre à mars et les inondations causent chaque année des morts et des destructions. En 2013, les inondations avaient causé plus d'une centaine de victimes et 250 000 sinistrés.

INONDATIONS DU WABE SHEBELLE DANS L'OGADEN (ETHIOPIE) en novembre 2008
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Petit film sur la vie dans le quartier sur pilotis de Makoko à Lagos

 

 

 

En anglais. Publié le 15 mai 2012Channels Television Durée : 23 minutes

 

Nestled inside Yaba Local Government Area of Lagos State, Makoko is one of many water and coastline settlements. It is a slum that is said to have existed for over 100 years.

 

 

 

Petit film sur l’école flottante de Makoko à Lagos (N.b. Elle figure dans les références de Google Earth et on peut la voir de satellite). Auteur : Daryl Mulvihill

 

En anglais. Publié le 14 nov. 2013  Durée : 23 minutes

 

Kunle Adeyemi founder of NLE Architects presents his African water cities research and the Makoko floating school project. This presentation was part of the Stad-Forum "Week van de Stad" water cities symposium at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam.

 

 

Cette école a été inaugurée officiellement en mars 2013. Le bâtiment flotte sur 250 bidons de plastique. On peut voir cette école dans ce documentaire de la série Reporters de France 24 d'août 2013 (en français; 17 minutes).

L'INONDATION DE OUAGADOUGOU LE 1er SEPTEMBRE 2009

 

(Burkina Faso) Petit film en français de Médecins Sans Frontières - France

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvAjxrJzEBs&feature=player_detailpage

 

Mise en ligne le 15 oct. 2009

Le premier septembre, des trombes d'eau s'abattent sur Ouagadougou, la capitale burkinabé. 150 000 personnes quittent, dans l'urgence, leurs maisons inondées. Les équipes de MSF étant sur place, elles ont pu intervenir rapidement.

 

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LES INONDATIONS DE 2012 EN NIGERIA

 

 

SPECIAL REPORT FLOOD IN NIGERIA

25 septembre 2012, Channels Television

 

Destructive FLOODS Ravage NIGERIA 30 Dead 100,000 Displaced

 

Flood in Nigeria: Lokoja - living in a town underwater

 

Publiée le 29 sept. 2012

(Nigeria News) Villagers forced to use boats, homes completely submerged underwater and animals seeking refuge from the encroaching waters are the scenes in Lokoja, a town in Kogi state on the frontline of the flood in Nigeria

UPDATED: 820, 282 people have been displaced across Adamawa, Benue, Taraba, Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta, Anambra & Kogi states (latest figures released from Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency)

"The flood has taken over more than one-third of the town," says Emmanuel Idoko, a local businessman. "Some people are cut off from the town entirely."

Some of the heaviest rains for years, as well as the release of excess water from Cameroon's Lagdo dam have left hundreds of thousands displaced and unknown numbers of people dead across the country.

"This is the largest, highest flood I have experienced in my life," says one local villager as he looks out across the water. "The water now is 12.54 metres above water level."

Local communities are leaving for higher ground and local businesses are reporting a 80% drop in custom. The water supply to the town has been shut-off and electricity supply is, at best, only a few hours a day in areas not affected by the flood but people are relying on their generators.

NEMA has set up 87 IDP camps for Kogi state alone where they say at least 623,690 people in 344 communities have been displaced. In our photos and video the Ibaji Local Government Area is almost completely submerged.

"It is now necessary to call on people living in Ibaji to either move to Idah Local Government Council of the state or to closer communities in Anambra State" warned Muhammad Sani-Sidi, the Director General of NEMA (National Emergency Management Agency)

- the economic cost of the floods has not been counted yet, but a temporary road to Abuja has now been opened -

In a statement by NEMA, Governor Wada of Kogi state is reported to have flown across the flooded area and stated:

"The situation is not only devastating but alarming by the magnitude of damages to the communities as we had just seen from the air."

But many local communities in Kogi state complain that very little has been done by the government to help protect their livelihoods that are now in danger of being swept away by the floods.

The flood in Nigeria is now spreading to Southern-Eastern states of Amanbra and Imo. NEMA warns the floods will likely continue:

"Prolonged flooding as more water would still be released from Lagdo Dam in Cameroon and Kainji Dam with the intensifying rain."

Emmanuel Idoko says he is not optimistic the problem will get any better soon: "We're expecting the flood to be worse than what we are seeing now - it's rising everyday."

For more on BattaBox's extensive coverage on the flood in Nigeria see our news reports from across the country.

RAPPORT SUR LES INONDATIONS EN AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST (septembre 2012)

 

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CENTRE AFRICAIN POUR LES APPLICATIONS

DE LA METEOROLOGIE AU DEVELOPPEMENT

 

Le début est en anglais (rappel des prévisions météorologiques) mais le rapport sur les inondations, qui suit, est en français. Ce rapport contient de nombreuses cartes météorologiques.

 

Ce Centre, dont le sigle anglais est ACMAD, est basé à Niamey, au Niger, et son site est consultable en français, en anglais et en portugais. Il émet des prévisions sur l'ensemble du continent africain concernant les fortes pluies et le risque d'inondation. Voir les prévisions du jour !