http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/8629/Nimba_Flood_Worsens.html
"NIMBA COUNTY, Floods in Nimba have worsened during a second week of heavy downpour, leaving
the St. John on the border with Guinea and the Cestos River along the Ivory Coast border to burst their banks, forcing the
two borders to close down."
http://home.att.net/~thehessians/storm2007.html
"Hundreds of people living in parts of Bushrod Island, just outside of Monrovia, on Monday were
badly hit by floods created by an upsurge of water, which overflowed the banks of the St. Paul River; leaving residents
strangulated in their homes as well as being deprived of tangible properties and personal belongings. The St. Paul River
overflowed its banks Sunday night due to the heavy downpour of rain."
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr28/en/index.html
"19 AUGUST 2008 |
GENEVA -- Rising flood waters across West Africa are intensifying
health risks for millions of people, and adding to the impact
of the food price crisis. International aid is needed as heavy
rains forecast to last until September could exacerbate health
threats for conditions including malaria, diarrhea and other
potentially fatal communicable diseases.
"West Africa's
annual floods bring with them not only the threat of vector-borne
and communicable diseases, but it further endangers the lives
of people already malnourished by the food price crisis,"
said Dr Eric Laroche, Assistant Director-General of WHO's
Health Action in Crises Cluster."
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EDIS-76WRS2?OpenDocument
"It may be recalled that between 27 July
and 4 August 2007, rising tides and ocean surge led to the
destruction of nine homes in Bardeh Wleh, a fishing village
on the Atlantic coast of Buchanan in Grand Bassa County. The
sea displaced 135 mainly Ghanaian fishermen and their families
and destroyed 22 houses. During the same period, a rise in
the Mechlin River in District #2, Grand Bassa County flooded
Kpor Jimmy, Compound #2 and five villages that lie along the
riverbanks. The floods damaged four houses and flooded several
others. On 27 July, heavy rains caused the Du and Ben River
and the Yor Creek in Margibi County to overflow their banks.
The resultant floods destroyed three houses, damaged two houses
and led to the displacement of 16 persons in Bassa Community
and Mandingo Quarter in Kakata."
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-76Q3H9?OpenDocument
"This resulted in the flooding
of six communities (comprising ten towns and villages) in and around
Monrovia. "
http://www.starradio.org.lr/content/view/8657/380/
Monday, 21 July 2008
"Several communities in Monrovia and its environs were flooded as a result of heavy rains on Sunday."
"
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79364
MONROVIA, 21 July 2008 (IRIN)
"Rain in the Liberian capital Monrovia on 20 July caused the worst floods on record in Monrovia and forced nearly
1,000 people out of their houses, Liberian authorities told IRIN."
"
