Tag: displaced
Brazil: flood toll rises to 20 dead, 63,000 displaced
Floods caused by heavy rains in Bahia state have killed two more people, bringing the region’s death toll to 20 since early November, with nearly 63,000 people displaced, local officials…
Torrential rains in Brazil: 18 dead, 58 towns flooded and 35,000 displaced
In total, an estimated 430,869 people were affected by these torrential rains. The critical situation worsened towards the end of the weekend. Significant resources are mobilized A man was killed…
In Brazil, flood toll rises to 20 dead, 63,000 displaced
A man carries his dog over floodwaters in Itapetinga, Bahia state, Brazil, December 27, 2021. MANUELLA LUANA / AP Floods caused by heavy rains in the state of Bahia (northeastern…
Brazil: 18 dead and 35,000 displaced after torrential rains
Since the beginning of November, the State of Bahia has suffered from devastating tropical rains. An increasingly frequent phenomenon in winter, due to global warming. Entire towns under water, roads…
In Malaysia, flood toll of 14 dead and more than 70,000 displaced
Residents of Shah Alam, capital of Selangor, Malaysia, December 21, 2021. ARIF KARTONO / AFP In Malaysia, the toll of the floods, the worst for several years, increased to fourteen…
“Dozens of dead” in attacks on villages and a camp for displaced people in Ituri
Displaced Congolese in the village of Drodro, Ituri, in July 2019. JOHN WESSELS / AFP Dozens, if not a hundred people were killed during the night of Sunday 21 to…
Nearly 55 million internally displaced people in 2020 worldwide
Every second in 2020, more than one person has been forced to flee within their own country, bringing the total number of internally displaced people to 55 million, according to…