Deadly Floods in South and East
Flood
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedFlooding has affected the Assaba and Hodh Ech Chargui regions of Mauritania after days of heavy rainfall.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 700 · Deaths: 5
- What help is neededMauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani recently visited flood-hit areas of Hodh Ech Chargui during which a package of assistance measures was approved for affected residents.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Flooding has affected the Assaba and Hodh Ech Chargui regions of Mauritania after days of heavy rainfall. Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani recently visited flood-hit areas of Hodh Ech Chargui during which a package of assistance measures was approved for affected residents. The region has seen heavy rainfall since 01 September, resulting in floods in Bassiknou, Adel Begrou, Amourj and Néma. According to the Mauritania Red Crescent Society, flooding damaged infrastructure including bridges, river embankments and water supply. It is estimated that around 10,000 people from 1,380 households are affected, with over 700 people homeless. Three fatalities were reported. Meanwhile local media reported flooding in Assaba Region on 13 September 2020. Four people have reportedly died and 1 is missing after floods in Barkeol, which lies around 700km west of Bassiknou. Flooding affected southern parts of the country in August last year, when 5 people died . The regions of Brakna and Assaba were affected by floods in 2017 , leaving at least 18 people dead.
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WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 2 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 700 retained at 2020-09-14
- Deaths
- 5 retained at 2020-09-14
What we knew when
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- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
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Provenance
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