Bududa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of bodies of the Bududa landslides victims recovered has now reached 12. This follows the recovery of 3 more bodies on Monday using an excavator following landslides that hit Naposhi and Namasa in Bushika Sub County on Tuesday last week. More than 30 …
Read More »Delayed relocation of landslide victims angers Bududa district leaders
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bududa district authorities are bitter with the office of the Prime Minister over the delayed relocation of the people from landslide prone areas. They argue that the Disaster Preparedness Ministry hasn’t done enough to ensure the safety of their people. After the 2011 Nametsi …
Read More »Rescue teams struggling to retrieve bodies in Bududa landslides
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rescue teams are still struggling to retrieve remains of persons who were covered underground following landslides that hit parts of Bududa district early this week. A heavy down pour caused multiple landslides in the villages of Namasa, Naposhi and shukururu in Bushika sub-county of …
Read More »Bulambuli family hosts 30 landslide victims
Bulambuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A family in Bulambuli district has offered to host 37 victims of the recent landslides. Fresh landslides triggered by heavy rains triggered landslides in Bulambuli district on August 27th, 2019 displacing dozens of families whose house were destroyed. The landslides buried homes in Busia, Bugatisa …
Read More »Manafwa residents live in fear of fresh landslides
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 100 people in landslide prone areas in Bunabutsale, Kaato and Weswa Sub-Counties in Manafwa district are living in fear of fresh landslides. Fresh cracks continue emerging in Kaato Sub County due to the ongoing rains pounding the district. In May last year, …
Read More »More than 400 people stranded in Bududa
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The landslides that hit Bududa district on Tuesday left more than 400 people homeless and stranded. The area suffered multiple landslides after a heavy downpour that lasted more than eight hours, hardly hitting the areas of the Bunamwamba North, Bunamwamba Main and, Bunamwamba South …
Read More »Five dead, 50 missing after fresh landslides in Bududa
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least five people have been confirmed dead following fresh landslides in Bududa district. More than 50 others are reported missing since the landslide that came with a heavy downpour on Tuesday evening. About 150 houses were reportedly razed by the landslides. The office of …
Read More »Fresh cracks emerge in Manafwa district
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fresh cracks have emerged in Kaato Sub County in Manafwa district raising fear of landslides among residents and local leaders. Alice Khaiza, a resident of Bunamungoma village in Kaato Sub County told URN that the cracks are visible in four areas in his village. …
Read More »Over a dozen people killed in Uganda landslides
Kampala, Uganda | AFP | About 15 people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday in landslides triggered by torrential downpours in hilly western Uganda, local authorities said. @Jadwong houses swept away by floods in Bundibugyo, roads made impassable, 11 confirmed dead @newvisionwire pic.twitter.com/RjFOOCcFv3 — Charles Etukuri (@EtukuriCharles) May 10, …
Read More »20 killed, mostly children, by Rwanda landslides
Kigali, Rwanda | AFP | At least 20 people, many of them children, were killed overnight by devastating landslides in northern Rwanda triggered by torrential rainstorms, the disaster management ministry said Sunday. “Up until now we have counted at least 20 dead in landslides that buried houses in the district …
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