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Tanzania: Flood, Landslide Death Toll Rises to Over 50


Mon 04 Dec 2023 | 02:23 PM
Tanzania Floods
Tanzania Floods
Nada Mustafa

Death toll from floods and landslides in northern Tanzania, after torrential rains over the weekend has risen to more than 50, with 750 acres of farmland destroyed, accroding to Reuters.

In a statment, Tanzanian president's office said that the landslides and floods had affected 1,150 households, or 5,600 pepeople.

It is worth mentioning that, severe flooding caused by El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole weather phenomena has killed hundreds of people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes since seasonal rains began in October