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West Africa: Disaster risk reduction made simple

22 Jul 2009, IRIN

Partnerships between aid agencies and climate experts are finally paying off by helping NGOs’ disaster prevention and response, but specialists question why it took so long...


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Human Exposure
Hazard type Population
exposed
Percentage of population
Cyclone 0
Drought 30,802
Flood 1,939
Landslide 6
 
Earthquake 0
Tsunami 0
Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report
Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
Disaster Date Affected (no. of people)
Drought 1980 500,000
Flood 1999 32,000
Storm 2003 8,019
Storm 2004 6,137
Flood 1996 4,000
Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
Data version: v11.08   *: Including tsunami
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