10 years of technical and natural catastrophes

* including epidemic

* including epidemic

Source: "EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
www.em-dat.net - Université Catholique de Louvain - Brussels - Belgium"

	Country	Location	Date	Nature	Number of deaths	Number of affected people
1	Algeria	Thenia, Boumerdes	21/05/2003	Earthquake	2 266	210 261
2	Morocco	Aït Kamra, Tamassint	24/02/2004	Earthquake	628	13 465
3	Ethiopia	Dire Dawa, Ket	05/08/2006	Floods	498	10 096
4	Uganda	Nametsi, Kubehwo, Namanga	25/02/2010	Landslide	388	12 795
5	Ethiopia	Amorate, Gangato	13/08/2006	Floods	364	8 000
6	Madagascar	Antalaha, Maroantsetra	07/03/2004	Cyclone "Galifo"	363	988 139
7	Nigeria	Lagos, Adamawa, Nassarawa	01/07/2012	Floods	363	7 000 867
8	Somalia	Puntland (Bari, Nugal)	26/12/2004	Tsunami	298	105 083
9	Ethiopia	Ogaden, Gode	23/04/2005	Floods	156	235 418
10	Sudan	Khartoum, White Nile	03/07/2007	Floods	150	565 335
11	Madagascar	Ikongo et Faniria communes	10/03/2010	Tropical storm "Hubert"	120	192 132
12	Nigeria	Ibadan	26/08/2011	Floods	120	3 000
13	Burundi	Busoni, Bugabira, Ntega	00/01/2005	Drought	120	2 150 000
14	Ethiopia	Ogaden	28/04/2003	Floods	119	110 000
15	Kenya	Dadaab, Kwale, Garissa	23/10/2006	Floods	114	723 000
16	Angola	Cunene, Uige, Huambo	00/03/2011	Floods	113	65 084
17	Namibia	Kunene, Oshana, Oshikoto	01/03/2011	Floods	108	500 000
18	Angola	Luanda	17/01/2007	Floods	105	40 000
19	Sierra Leone	Freetown	13/08/2009	Floods	103	1 470
20	Kenya	West Kenya	08/05/2010	Floods	100	70 000

	Country	Location	Date	Nature	Number of deaths	Number of affected people
1	Egypt	Red Sea	2/02/2006	Sinking of the ferry ’Al-Salam 98’	1028	387
2	Congo	Brazzaville	4/03/2012	Explosion of munitions dump	286	13 262
3	Nigeria	Lagos	26/12/2006	Explosion of an oil pipeline	269	65
4	Tanzania	Zanzibar	9/09/2011	Sinking of the ferry Spicy Islander	220	619
5	Nigeria	Bukkuyum, Anka	Janvier 2010	Lead poisoning	200	18 000
6	D R Congo	Congo River, Lukolela	1/02/ 2004	Shipwreck	200	301
7	D R Congo	Near Sange	2/07/2010	Road accident	192	25
8	Sudan	Red Sea	5/07/2011	Shipwreck	187	NA
9	D R Congo	Mai-Ndombe lake	25/11/2003	Sinking of the whaleboat «Thanks God»	185	222
10	Nigeria	Ilado beach	13/05/2006	Explosion of a pipeline	175	NA
11	Nigeria	Lagos	5/06/2012	Plane crash	157	6
12	Comoros	Near Comoros Islands	30/06/2009	Crash of an Airbus 310-300	152	1
13	Sierra Leone	North of Freetown	2/08/2007	Sinking of a watercraft	150	NA
14	Burundi	Tanganyika lake	24/03/2003	Sinking of the ferry «Kasobwe»	150	48
15	Egypt	Red Sea	3 /01/2004	Plane crash	148	NA
16	Tanzania	Zanzibar	18/07/2012	Ferry disaster	144	140
17	D R Congo	Kinshasa	8/05/2003	Incident onboard cargo plane, Ilyushin-76	140	20
18	Benin	Cotonou	25/12/2003	Crash of a Boeing 727-200	139	22
19	Nigeria	Onicha-Amayi (Abia State)	20/06/2003	Explosion of a pipeline	125	200
20	Comoros	Southwest coast	9/31/2011	Sinking of a watercraft	120	74

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