Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, June 9, 2010 (IPS) – Sri Lankans should be ready for more urban flash flooding, like those experienced in May, unless proper infrastructure is built to allow the onrushing waters to flow unhindered, experts warn. Sri Lanka was hit last month by its worst [...]
Residents Hope 2010 Flooding Prompts Govt Action in Luanda
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Louise Redvers LUANDA, May 6 (IPS) – The water seeped into Feliciana Teresa Matia’s home from beneath its mud floor and when her 20-year-old son Francisco got up to go to work, grabbing a metal pole for guidance in the dark, he was electrocuted. Clutching her dead son’s identity [...]
ARGENTINA: We’re Drowning in Sadness” – Native Group’s Land Flooded
April 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Apr 24 (IPS) – The legal battle waged by an indigenous community in northern Argentina against the government over a project that flooded half of their territory highlights the fact that legal title to their land is not enough to overcome the marginalisation they have [...]
MOZAMBIQUE: Co-existing With Floods
April 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marshall Patsanza GABORONE, Apr 22 (IPS) – April signals the tail end of the flood season in Mozambique. The country’s water managers will soon be able to appraise the effects of changing policies. Each year, the many major rivers that flow through Mozambique on their way to the Indian [...]
MOZAMBIQUE: Weather Service Key to Flood Disaster Management
April 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI, Apr 20 (IPS) – Mozambique’s government learned some tough lessons from the devastating floods that hit the country a decade ago. Experts say the disaster management plans drawn up since are a model for other African countries. The flooding in 2000 killed 700 people and displaced [...]
ZAMBIA: Health Fears Follow Floods
April 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Lloyd Himaambo LUSAKA, Apr 10 (IPS) – As the heavy rains subside, signifying the end of the rainy season, a cholera outbreak is sweeping through the Zambian capital, Lusaka. Humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), issued an alert on Apr. 9 concerning a cholera epidemic that has swept the [...]
ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides and floods – Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come
March 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA, Mar 9 (IPS) – Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in Bududa district in eastern Uganda. When he heard the [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
November 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ron Corben BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS) – Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine. The 240-year-old Thai capital, located on the Chao Phraya River [...]
ENVIRONMENT: India’s Floods in Retrospect
October 15, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Neeta Lal NEW DELHI, Oct 15 (IPS) – ”For almost one full day, we were desperate, wet and hungry,” said Raja Angamutthu. ”Our house, farmland, utensils, everything was floating in a watery grave while we looked on helplessly!” The third-generation farmer in Andhra Pradesh’s Cudappah district is [...]
