FLOODING CAUSED BY NON-STOP RAIN DEVASTATES WESTERN TANZANIA

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FLOODING CAUSED BY NON-STOP RAIN DEVASTATES WESTERN TANZANIA DEATH TOLL REACHES 8 AS 3,500 LEFT HOMELESS, BUT WORST IS YET TO COME AS RAINY SEASON CONTINUES MAY 6, 2011 AND FOLLOWING Other Supercourse lectures on Flooding Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world with more than one-third of its people living below the poverty line, has 38 million people; about one-half of which are children.

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

DAR es SALAAM: CAPITAL

IMPACTED AREA Kilombero in the Morogoro region, about 250 miles from the capital Dar es Salaam, has been devastated by the prolonged seasonal rains, which will not end until June.

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

WESTERN TANZANIA: INUNDATION

WESTERN TANZANIA: INUNDATION

FLOODING MAY LEAD TO URGENT HEALTH CARE NEEDS Tanzania faces a possible outbreak of diseases such as malaria and health care needs such as malnutrition, and diarrhoea, all of which are highly sensitive to changing temperatures and rains.