2010 West African floods
It was confirmed on June 2 that at least 24 people were killed across Ghana the previous weekend according to Mr Kofi Portuphy, coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation.
[2] On July 11, CHF 134,948 (USD 124,353 or EUR 101,870) had been selected by the Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to support the Ghana's Red Cross Society in delivering primary aid to assistance about 5,000 people.
[4] The International Federation of the Red Cross said it was providing aid to flood and rain related landslide victims in the Central African Republic and in Ivory Coast.
[5] On 10 August 2010 the Niger River floods had killed 30,000 animals, destroyed 500 homes and 20,000 people faced homelessness due to heavy rainfall in West and Central Africa according to the UN.
The United Nations (U.N.) warned that Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and northern Nigeria were in the grip of the worst regional food crisis since 2006.
[7] Nigeria has seen entire northern villages washed away and aid workers have finally worked out that 200,000 were made homeless in the Niger since the rains started falling in mid-August.
The heavy and slightly premature seasonal rains hit the north of Bahr el-Ghazal state and the spread southward, with much of Aweil town surrounding countryside under water due to the near to constant month-long down pour.
[9] South Sudan's Health Minister Luka Monoja warned that the rains, which last until October, could force out more people as he toured the disaster zone.
By October 6, CHF 122,297 (USD 124,389 or EUR 92,163) has been allocated from the IFRC's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to the Ghana Red Cross Society for immediate Support for some 3,000 households.
[12] West Gonja District witnessed more than 900 houses, 11 school buildings, about 832 acres farm land and 3 road bridges destroyed and more than 500 people displaced.
[12][13] Between October 8 and 31, 2010, CHF 122,297 (USD 124,389 or EUR 92,163) had been allocated from the IFRC's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to help support the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) primary aid work for 3,000 households.
[15] 15 days of floods and torrential rain killed 43 people, left 97,815 and destroyed 55,000 homes in Benin according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs aid worker Kemoral Jadjombaye.
[8] By November 29, the WFP provided food for 25,000 victims in urgent need of assistance, which was valued at US$300,000, will include maize, beans, vegetable oil and salt, the UN agency said in a statement to the world media.
[17] Both automated teller machines and inter-bank communication systems run by the Attijariwafa Bank, in Rabat, broke down due to a build-up of static electricity in that evening's thunderstorm.
[17] On December 12 Action-Aid Ghana presented some building materials to the authorities in the Central Gonja District of the country's Northern Region for distribution to the 13 communities who were severely affected by the flood disaster and have agreed to move to higher grounds.
[18] By December 22, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) had given out aid-trade vouchers valued at GHc 70.00 to over 700 displaced people from 700 households affected by floods in the town of Buipe.
They could also be used to register an account with the Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Catholic Bishops Conference of Ghana and the Central Gonja District Assembly.
