1. 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

2. 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.

3. UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

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6. DAR es SALAAM: CAPITAL

7. 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.

8. UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

9. WESTERN TANZANIA: INUNDATION

10. WESTERN TANZANIA: INUNDATION

11. 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.