{"id":2489,"date":"2019-05-20T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T10:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","slug":"tanzania-floods-kill-five-leave-around-2500-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/20\/tanzania-floods-kill-five-leave-around-2500-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Floods Kill Five, Leave Around 2,500 Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Flooding in Tanzania has killed five people and forced about 2,500 to flee their homes after a week of torrential rain in the country&#8217;s south, an official said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Schools have closed in Kyela, a district on the border of Lake Malawi, and families fled to shelters after losing everything in the rising waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The damage from these floods is enormous,&#8221; Salome Magambo, the district&#8217;s administrative secretary, told\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Since the beginning of the week, we have reported five people killed and 2,570 homeless, some of whom are staying with friends or in schools and churches.&#8221; Food and medical services have been extended to those stranded, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Farming land in the district known for its rice production has also been inundated, destroying crops and raising fears of food shortages in coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In April 2018 at least 14 people were killed in torrential rains and flooding in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania&#8217;s economic capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Tanzania-floods-kill-five\/1066-5119906-1gbcg6z\/index.html\">original article<\/a> on Daily Nation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Flooding in Tanzania has killed five people and forced about 2,500 to flee their homes after a week of torrential rain in the country&#8217;s south, an official&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}