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FLOODING CAUSED BY NON-STOP RAIN DEVASTATES WESTERN TANZANIA

FLOODING CAUSED BY NON-STOP RAIN DEVASTATES WESTERN TANZANIA. DEATH TOLL REACHES 8 AS 3,500 LEFT HOMELESS, BUT WORST IS YET TO COME AS RAINY SEASON CONTINUES MAY 6, 2011 AND FOLLOWING. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA.

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FLOODING CAUSED BY NON-STOP RAIN DEVASTATES WESTERN TANZANIA

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  1. FLOODING CAUSED BY NON-STOP RAIN DEVASTATES WESTERN TANZANIA DEATH TOLL REACHES 8 AS 3,500 LEFT HOMELESS, BUT WORST IS YET TO COME AS RAINY SEASON CONTINUES MAY 6, 2011 AND FOLLOWING Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

  2. Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world with more than one-third of its people living below the poverty line, has 38 million people; about one-half of which are children.

  3. UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

  4. UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

  5. UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

  6. DAR es SALAAM: CAPITAL

  7. IMPACTED AREA • Kilombero in the Morogoro region, about 250 miles from the capital Dar es Salaam, has been devastated by the prolonged seasonal rains, which will not end until June.

  8. UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

  9. WESTERN TANZANIA: INUNDATION

  10. WESTERN TANZANIA: INUNDATION

  11. FLOODING MAY LEAD TO URGENT HEALTH CARE NEEDS • Tanzania faces a possible outbreak of diseases such as malaria and health care needs such as malnutrition, and diarrhoea, all of which are highly sensitive to changing temperatures and rains.

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