MALI Floods - Crisis overview Key findings

Floods The weather forecast for the remainder of October and November suggests that above- average rainfall will persist and cause the Niger River that flows through the above Need for international Not required Low Moderate Significant Major mentioned regions, to overflow, possibly causing the worst floods in 50 years. [...] Health: Past floods in the same area have always resulted in the outbreak of water-borne Air: Gao and Timbuktu airports, as well as the Bamako and Mopti airports to a lesser diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea. [...] Maliweb 29/07/2016 The Outil de Prediction des Inondations dans le Delta Interieur du Niger (OPIDIN) is an early warning system to predict the rise of water and potential floods and the moment of Political stability and security “deflooding” in the Inner Niger Delta, developed by the Malian government and Wetlands The northern Mali region is unstable, and there has been a recent surge in violence. [...] between non-government armed groups in the North, especially in the Kidal region (RFI Government access to some areas in the centre and to most areas in the north remain 07/10/2016). [...] Both the Malian army and the UN peacekeeping force MINUSMA have been scarce, including for emergency response, and access to those regions hamper targets of attacks by armed groups in the northern and central regions (ACLED 01/10/2016).