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A segment of a residential hotspot identified as a high-risk zone in Gatsata. Other hotspots include Jabana, Nduba, Kimisagara, Nyakabanda, Kigali, and Mageragere sectors, as well as areas near wetlands. Photo: File
Environment

What next after identifying 326 major disaster hotspots?

Sunday, September 22, 2024
A segment of a residential hotspot identified as a high risk zone in Gatsata. These hotspots include Gatsata, Jabana, Nduba, Kimisagara, Nyakabanda, Kigali, and Mageragere sectors, as well as areas near wetlands. File
Environment

City of Kigali names disaster hotspots as rainy season starts

Sunday, September 08, 2024
Rwanda Meteorology Agency has warned of “intense and frequent lightning strikes,” especially at the beginning of the forthcoming rainy season
Environment

Meteorology agency warns of intense lightning strikes as rainy season starts

Saturday, August 24, 2024
The Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland, visited The Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. Photo by Commonwealth Secretariat

Small island developing states need finance to tackle climate crisis

Friday, June 21, 2024
Rwanda National Police officers rescue Kigali residents who got stranded at a flooded street on February 3, 2020. File
Environment

Rwanda to benefit from ‘flash flood early warning’ initiative for Central African region

Tuesday, June 18, 2024
One of the 26 houses destroyed by landslides on a hill in Gakenke District on Sunday, May 5. Courtesy
Environment

Gakenke landslides demolish 26 houses, destroy crops

Monday, May 06, 2024
People pull a car submerged in flood water along Thika Road in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, on May 1, 2024. (Photo by Joy Nabukewa. Xinhua)

Now that floods have come to cities, govts will be forced to act

Tuesday, May 07, 2024
Heavy rains have led to the collapse of several houses across the country, according to a report from the Ministry in Charge of Emergency Management (MINEMA). 49 people have also lost lives in the last two months. File
Environment

49 people lose lives as Rwanda records 300 disaster cases in two months

Friday, May 03, 2024
A view of river Rubyiro burst its banks and damaged rice plantation in Rusizi District. File
Environment

Households along Rubyiro, Cyagara river banks to be relocated amid fears of floods

Thursday, May 02, 2024
A view of a flooded Ngororero-Muhanga road near Nyabarongo river, after heavy rains that disrupted travel on April 1. Nyabarongo is listed among the rivers that could cause floods. Courtesy
Environment

Rwanda’s rivers ‘likely to burst their banks’ as regional countries face flood crisis

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
A section of Kigali-Muhanga road in Nkoto Cell, Rugarika Sector, Kamonyi District, that was destroyed by heavy rains on Monday, April 29. Courtesy
Environment

Weather forecaster warns of heavy floods, rainstorms, landslides in first week of May

Monday, April 29, 2024
A scene of the tragedy where heavy reains caused houses to collapse in Ngara Cell, in Bumbogo Sector, Gasabo District. Courtesy
Environment

Kigali: High risk zone dwellers warned to relocate as heavy rains kill mother, child in Kigali

Monday, April 29, 2024