Emergencies
HumAngle’s Emergencies Desk focuses on emergencies such as disease outbreaks, flooding incidents, natural disasters, post-election violence, breaking reports of large-scale abductions/ killings, and so on.
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Drowned Victims, Farm Losses: The Aftermath Of Nigeria’s Giant Floods
Aisha Mallam Baida, 57, was deep in mourning, her face swollen and submerged in sadness. She wept. It was the…
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Uganda Confirms New Cases Of Ebola Virus
There have been 19 newly recorded cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) confirmed across Uganda. 14 cases in Kampala,…
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Chadian Leader Declares State Of Emergency As Floods Displace More Than 1 Million Persons
The leader of Chad’s Transitional Military Council, General Mahamat Idris Deby Itno, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, signed a decree declaring…
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Farmers Tried To Protect Their Land From Floods, It Divided Communities
Even before the scientists were predicting torrential rains would cause devastating floods in many Nigerian states, Hadejia people knew that…
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Cholera, Measles Kill 252 Persons In Nigeria’s Borno
A total of 178 persons have died of cholera infection in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria since July this year, according…
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Over 1,500 Confirmed Cases Of Cholera In Northeast Nigeria
Over 1,500 confirmed cases of cholera had been recorded in Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa in Northeast Nigeria between January and…
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Ebola: Deaths Increase In Uganda As President Rules Out Lockdown
On Wednesday, Sept. 28, Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni, ruled out lockdown as a containment measure for the outbreak of Ebola…
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Flood Erodes Kano Farmlands As Reports Show Bleaker Future Across States
Ubale Tsoho was eager for harvest day. To ensure everything was okay on his farmland on the outskirts of Burji,…
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Malnutrition Fast Becoming A Crisis In Northwest Nigeria – MSF
As the malnutrition crisis continues to unfold to catastrophic levels in Northwest Nigeria, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is calling on…
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Cameroon Borrows 30 Million US Dollars To Fight Floods In National Capital
The government of Cameroon this week signed two loan agreements with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to the tune of…
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