Reports

Despite recent political upheavals in Libya and neighbouring countries across the Sahel, Chad is on a steady path to sustainable recovery and stabilization. Favourable rain patterns in the Sahel in 2012 are expected to yield better agricultural…

Re-Visiting States Accountability on Emergency Response/Preparedness and Disaster Risk Reduction In Nigeria. Context Climate change and the consequences of global warming have been a major concern in Nigeria in recent years, the challenges that global warming pose, the…

Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Alhaji Muhammed Sani Sidi on Monday received relief items worth N104 million (52 million yen) from the government and people of Japan for victims of flooding in…

Flood waters recede but millions remain displaced BAYELSA/WARRI/DAKAR, 9 November 2012 (IRIN) - Efforts to repair infrastructure and restore livelihoods destroyed by Nigeria's recent flooding - the worst in five decades - require urgent funding and will…

(Cotonou/Geneva/New York, 20 October 2012) We have to change the way we deal with humanitarian crises and support governments to improve preparedness and increase the capacities and coping mechanisms of communities and households faced with floods,…

Poor communities in Senegal's capital city Dakar fare the worst when natural disasters hit because of their location in flood prone zones. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Senegal is vulnerable to disasters including flooding, drought, land degradation, rising sea levels and…

Auke Lootsma Across the world, both the number of disasters and their human and economic impact have been on the rise. In 2011, natural disasters killed more than 30,000 people and affected 244 million. That same year,…

In brief Programme outcome National Societies in the West Coast region  Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo  work within the framework of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies…

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has inaugurated Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Club in 10 pilot schools in Anambra State on Thursday, May 17, 2012. The event which took place at Girls Secondary School (Amaenyi) Awka…

The Nigeria’s National Emergency Management has approved the deployment of two technical officers to The Gambia to support the country in the takeoff of its National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA). The Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi…