{"id":32970,"date":"2021-01-18T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=32970"},"modified":"2021-01-18T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:04:24","slug":"city-of-gweru-establishes-evacuation-shelters-for-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/city-of-gweru-establishes-evacuation-shelters-for-flood-victims","title":{"rendered":"City Of Gweru Establishes Evacuation Shelters For Flood Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Gweru City Council (GCC) has established several temporary shelters for residents who may be affected by floods following incessant rains across Zimbabwe\u2019s third-largest city over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In a public notice, City of Gweru Acting Town Clerk Vakai Douglas Chikwekwe warned residents of Mkoba 4 (Dewa Road), Tinshell suburb, Woodlands, Mtapa, Nashville, Ascot Extension, among other areas, to evacuate to the centres. He said:<\/p>\n<p>The City of Gweru would like to advise residents, clients and stakeholders residing in Mkoba 4(Dewa Road), Tinshell suburb, Woodlands, Mtapa, Nashville, Ascot Extension and other areas that due to persistent rains flooding may occur.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, we encourage affected residents to evacuate to the following temporary shelters:<\/p>\n<p>Senga Training Centre<\/p>\n<p>Mpumelelo Primary School<\/p>\n<p>Takwirira Primary School<\/p>\n<p>Budiriro Primary School<\/p>\n<p>Matongo Primary School<\/p>\n<p>Mtapa Hall<\/p>\n<p>Shumba Hall<\/p>\n<p>Mkoba Hall<\/p>\n<p>Ingwe Hall<\/p>\n<p>Ascot Beer Hall<\/p>\n<p>Senga Beer Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Gweru City Council (GCC) has established several temporary shelters for residents who may be affected by floods following incessant rains across Zimbabwe\u2019s third-largest city over the past few weeks. In a public notice, City of Gweru Acting Town Clerk Vakai Douglas Chikwekwe warned residents of Mkoba 4 (Dewa Road), Tinshell suburb, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,2566,2169,168,985,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-32970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-city-of-gweru","14":"tag-floods","15":"tag-gweru","16":"tag-gweru-city-council","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City Of Gweru Establishes Evacuation Shelters For Flood Victims - 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