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Moama locals say people have come from as far away as Melbourne to help sandbag their homes, meanwhile emergency services have rescued a distressed wallaby from the fast-flowing Murray River.

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Widespread rain and thunderstorms are predicted for NSW as the focus remains on the southern town of Moama, where people are sandbagging and building a levee.

Nigerians are no strangers to flooding. In some parts of the country, flooding is an annual event. But the intensity varies from one year to the next. In some years, the effects are minimal, in others, devastating. The 2022 floods have caused massive damage, like those experienced in 2012. Ten…

Volunteers call for more assistance before rains return, saying community spirit is heartening but ‘only goes so far’

Modellers say those within 4km of an infected piggery potentially vulnerable, meaning 740,546 people at risk of mosquito-borne virus

The leader of a minor political party in Cambodia called on his supporters to join him at his home and avoid being wiped out in a biblical flood he prophesised was imminent

Emergency authorities say river levels will likely peak early next week in Echuca, where locals have built a 2.5 kilometre levee to protect vulnerable properties from flooding.

Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) reports that more than 600 people have died in flooding that has hit 33 out of 36 states throughout the country. Governors of Delta, Bayelsa, Kogi, Benue and Anambra states separately urgently requested the federal government for more help in aiding those who have…

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