SHAKE AND BLOW - AFRICA DAILY

Two dead as torrential rains batter southeast Spain

Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)

A 61-year-old man and his 51-year-old sister died when their vehicle was swept away as fast-moving waters swamped a road in Caudete, a municipality around 100 k...

2,500 unaccounted for in hurricane-hit Bahamas: official

Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)

NEMA spokesman Carl Smith told reporters that some of the missing people may eventually be located. "At this point, there are approximately 2,500 individuals re...

Niger floods killed 57

Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)

Extreme weather is common in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, but the capital and even desert areas in the North were hit during this year's rainy s...

Heatstroke kills two in Japan post-typhoon blackout

Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)

A 93-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man were found unconscious at their respective homes on Tuesday and were later confirmed dead by doctors, an official from...

Bahamas Dorian toll climbs to 50, as thousands evacuated

Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)

Police Commissioner Anthony Ferguson said 42 deceased persons on the island of Abaco and eight on Grand Bahama had been recovered as of Sunday, in an article pu...

Haitians in hurricane-devastated Bahamas face uncertain future

Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)

Now the loss of everything they own is compounded by fear about the future. "I need help," said Blondel Vincent, a Haitian with Bahamian nationality. "I have fo...

One dead after powerful typhoon hits Tokyo

Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)

Typhoon Faxai, packing record winds of up to 207 kilometres (129 miles) per hour, made landfall in Chiba just east of the capital before dawn, after barrelling ...

Death toll of Morocco flood-hit bus rises to 17

Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)

Rescuers have been searching for bodies since the accident Sunday, when the bus flipped on a bridge in a valley near the city of Errachidia, authorities said. T...

Dorian makes landfall near Halifax, Canada as dangerous cyclone

Sep 08, 2019 (AFP)

The storm churned up 65-foot (20-meter) waves which pounded the coast near the port city that is home to Canada's Atlantic fleet. As it moved north from the US ...

Morocco floods kill 11 in bus accident: local officials

Sep 08, 2019 (AFP)

Rescue crews evacuated 27 passengers from the bus, including several injured, after it flipped over on a bridge by "flood waters" in El Khank, local officials s...

Flies overwhelm Pakistan's Karachi in monsoon 'hell'

Sep 07, 2019 (AFP)

Heavy rains have inundated the sprawling port city of nearly 20 million people for weeks, overwhelming shoddy drainage systems clogged with mountains of uncolle...

N. Carolina faces 'long night' as Dorian's Bahamas toll rises

Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)

Authorities in the state of Florida -- which was largely spared by the storm -- blamed six more deaths on the hurricane, US media reported, though they occurred...

Satellite Captures Four Tropical Cyclones from Space

Sep 06, 2019 (SPX)

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Fernand packed sustained winds of 45 mph and had just recently made landfall over northeastern Mexico. Gabrielle strengthened into a t...

'It's hell everywhere': collecting Dorian's dead in ravaged Bahamas

Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)

Hands and face protected by latex gloves and masks, they hoist their grim discovery onto an old flatbed truck alongside other victims, hopping on board themselv...

Earthquake study casts doubt on early warnings but hints at improved forecasting

Sep 05, 2019 (SPX)

This suggests development of early warning systems may be more difficult than hoped. But conversely, similarities between some events indicate that predictable ...

Bahamas PM laments 'generational devastation' as Dorian toll mounts

Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)

The US Coast Guard and Britain's Royal Navy airlifted survivors and ferried in emergency supplies as flood waters receded in the Bahamas, while the weakened but...

Four dead as monsoon deluge sparks Mumbai chaos

Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)

Mumbai -- home to 20 million people -- has been hit by torrential downpours over the past two months amid the annual monsoon deluge. Non-stop rain over several ...

Niger battles deadly floods as city streets swamped

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

Deadly floods have swamped several parts of the city and the rest of the country, forcing thousands to flee as it demolished homes and turned streets into river...

Slow-crawling Dorian a new kind of threat

Sep 03, 2019 (AFP)

So what has made this relatively small hurricane so destructive? - Packing a punch - Hurricane Dorian stormed into the record books on Sunday when its maximum s...

Florida is ready, but where is the hurricane?

Sep 03, 2019 (AFP)

But the wait is starting to get to those who have stayed behind, waiting for Hurricane Dorian, the slow-moving behemoth that walloped the Bahamas and now linger...