floods in Ghana over the next few weeks. Both the Ghana Red Cross Society, National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Gahanna police force and Gahanna military, Gahanna Government Ministries, UNICEF, USAID, The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and FAO all offered their assistance to the flooding northern region. Between October 8 and 31, 2010, CHF 122,297 (USD 124,389 or EUR 92,163) had been allocated from the IFRC's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to help support the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) primary aid work for 3,000 households. October 9–18 Cotonou's residents had to board canoes in Benin on the 9th due to severe flooding. The UN said 680,000 people were homeless as more than 300,000 acres of crops were destroyed and 81,000 livestock killed. Flooding began in mid-September when heavy rains caused the Niger River in Benin's north to overflow and break its banks. Rainfall continued across the country, ensuring the foods would continue. Heavy rains caused the collapse of an already damaged a dam in Ghana and displaced more than 700,000 people. The famine was finally relieved, but floods hit Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and Benin in October, but an exceptionally heavy flood had hit some countries instead. 15 days of floods and torrential rain killed 43 people, left 97,815 and destroyed 55,000 homes in Benin according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs aid worker Kemoral Jadjombaye. Nearly 66% of the nation was experiencing some degree of flooding and the city of Cotonou, the economic capital, was in chaos on October 18. A total of 42 of the 77 communes were flooded. Cotonou is a low-lying city and is flooded by the Oueme River nearly every year. 800 people also caught cholera, of which 7 died. November 29–30 By November 29, the WFP provided food for 25,000 victims in urgent need of assistance, which was valued at US$300,000, will include maize, beans, vegetable oil and salt, the UN agency said in a statement to the world media. The East Gonja, Kpandai, Wa East, Wa West and Krachi East District. The torrential monsoon weather hit many parts of the country resulting in heavy flooding that affected more than 140,000 people, which was worse by the spilling-over of excess water from the dam wall at the Bagre Dam and Kompienga Dams in Burkina Faso, which then in turn led to the overflowing of Ghana's Akosombo Dam. November 30 saw