{"id":18623,"date":"2016-05-11T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T09:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18623"},"modified":"2016-05-11T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T09:27:49","slug":"large-landslides-in-africa-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/05\/11\/large-landslides-in-africa-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Large landslides in Africa in the last few days"},"content":{"rendered":"
Large landslides in Africa in the last few days<\/h5>\n

I surprisingly rarely see reports of major landslides in Africa.\u00a0 However, in the last few days there have been three major rainfall induced events across the continent:<\/p>\n

1. Rwanda<\/h5>\n

Over the weekend heavy rainfall in Rwanda triggered landslides and floods across four districts of Rwanda.\u00a0 Most seriously hit was Gakenke district in the north of the country, which suffered 34 fatalities in landslides. Elsewhere there were another 25 deaths.\u00a0 All Africa reports that 67 people have died in Rwanda in landslides this year to date.\u00a0 This image shows one of the landslides this week:<\/p>\n

\"Landslides

Landslides in Africa: one of the landslides in Uganda this week, via Kigali Today<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

2. Uganda<\/h5>\n

Meanwhile, a major landslide struck Kyamukube village in Bukonzo sub county, Bughendera County in Uganda yesterday.\u00a0 Reports suggest<\/a> that to date 12 bodies have been recovered, but some reports suggest that “scores more are missing”.<\/p>\n

3. Ethiopia<\/h5>\n

Our landslide model suggests that Ethiopia should suffer many fatal landslides, but I record few.\u00a0 However, yesterday there was a major event, again induced by rainfall.\u00a0 The largest impact seems to have been at Wolayita in the south of the country, where 41 people are reported to have died in a single landslide<\/a>.\u00a0 Press TV<\/a> suggests that rainfall in Ethiopia is very anomalous this year, and suggests that El Nino may be a cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last few days there has been 3 large landslides in Africa, causing significant losses in Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":18628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,1112,469,959,1116,557],"class_list":["post-18623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-rwanda","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}