{"id":1222,"date":"2011-04-11T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2011-04-11T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:49:09","slug":"malawi-massive-flooding-in-karonga-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/11\/malawi-massive-flooding-in-karonga-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi &#8211; Massive Flooding in Karonga district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> For the past 2 to 3 weeks, Malawi has been experiencing high rainfall in  most of its districts. On the night of the 7th of April heavy rains  flooded Karonga district leaving around 3,287 people from 60 villages  destitute. With the ongoing assessments the numbers for the people  affected is expected to rise. Both North Rukuru and Songwe rivers burst  their banks, in the process collapsing a dyke that was constructed to  block North Rukuru river from reaching the district headquarters causing  extensive flooding around the District Assembly including the main  market, offices and residential houses. Most houses have collapsed and  people are staying in the open on the main road to Tanzania. Some of the  affected people are currently staying in schools. Fields have been  washed away and some have been submerged in water. An area stretching  nearly 60 kilometres has been affected.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image001\" width=\"360\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1399\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 2 to 3 weeks, Malawi has been experiencing high rainfall in most of its districts. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}