Tag Archives: emergency management
State House Press Release – Having received preliminary briefings from the Military High Command on the incident, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a full-scale investigation into reports of high civilian casualties in the confrontation between Nigerian soldiers and insurgents at … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, Politics, Press Releases, West Africa
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Tagged Baga, Borno State, emergency management, Goodluck Jonathan, Jonathan, Nigeria, Politics of Nigeria, Reuben Abati
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At least 45 people died when a wooden boat carrying 166 people from southeastern Nigeria capsized off the coast, a doctor said on Tuesday. The boat left on Friday from the remote town of Oron, in Cross Rivers state, and … read more »
A plane crash in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos is likely to have killed six people in the building that the airliner struck, bringing the toll from Nigeria’s worst airline disaster for two decades to 159, the Lagos state … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Aviation accidents and incidents, Dana Air, emergency management, Lagos, McDonnell Douglas MD-80, Nigeria, Reuters, Sunday
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Kaduna – An emergency management official says an explosion has struck near a military base in a central Nigerian city at the heart of riots that killed hundreds of people last year. Yushau Shuaib of the National Emergency Management Agency … read more »
President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the United States would boost its emergency aid to the Horn of Africa by $113 million. Calling the crisis “urgent,” Obama said in a statement that the additional aid would come on top … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Kenya, News, Somali
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Tagged Barack Obama, Djibouti, emergency management, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Somalia, United States
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Nigerian emergency authorities say at least 10 people have died in building collapses caused by heavy rains in the country’s north. A regional coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency said Monday that the victims include a mother and her … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, Bauchi State, breaking news, East Africa, emergency management, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Kano, Nigeria, North Africa, Pan African News, Primary school, Rain, Southern Africa, West Africa, Wet season
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Flash flooding in the U.S. northeastern city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has left four people dead. The victims include a mother and two young daughters found Friday drowned inside their car in 3 meters of water. Searchers found the fourth victim, … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Allegheny River, Arab League, breaking news, East Africa, emergency management, Flash flood, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, National Weather Service, North Africa, Pan African News, Penn Hills Township Allegheny County Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Southern Africa, Washington Boulevard, West Africa
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Nigerian emergency authorities say at least 29 people have died in weekend floods in two cities of Africa’s most populous nation. A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday that at least 20 people died in the commercial … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, breaking news, East Africa, emergency management, Flood, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Jonathan, Katsina, Lagos, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, Nigeria politics, North Africa, Pan African News, Rain, Southern Africa, West Africa, Wet season, Yushau Shuaib
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In October, 2009, I wrote a weekly commentary titled, “Famine and the Noisome Beast in Ethiopia”: It is hard to talk about Ethiopia these days in non-apocalyptic terms. Millions of Ethiopians are facing their old enemy again for the third … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Daylight Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, News
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Tagged African Maps, Aid agency, All Africa, Arab League, breaking news, East Africa, emergency management, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, International Monetary Fund, Jonathan, Meles Zenawi, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, Nigeria politics, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, West Africa, World Food Programme
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The UN’s emergency relief coordinator on Saturday called for long-term solutions to curb the effects of a severe drought in Ethiopia. “We need to plan for the long term to help people rebuild their communities when the situation improves,” Valerie … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged About Africa, Addis Ababa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, breaking news, Drought, East Africa, emergency management, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, N, Nigeria, Nigeria news, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, United Nations, Valerie Amos Baroness Amos, West Africa, World Food Programme
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Nigerian authorities say they’ve found two more bodies two days after a four-story building collapsed in a busy market in the commercial capital of Africa’s most populous nation. A National Emergency Management Agency official said the death toll rose to … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, West Africa
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October 24, 2010 by benim
Seven soccer fans were killed and dozens more were injured in a stampede at a match between two of Kenya’s top teams, an ambulance operator said on Saturday. The stampede took place inside the Nyayo National stadium in the capital … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, East Africa, Kenya, News, Soccer, Sports
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Tagged AFC Leopards, Africa news, Ambulance, Calgary Stampede, Death, emergency management, footbal, Gor Mahia, Gor Mahia F.C., hazards, human behavior, Indepth Africa, Kenya, Nairobi, Nyayo National Stadium, Rabat stampede, Soccer, sports-news, Stampede
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