Landslide Risk Assessment With the Help of GIS and Remote Sensing in and around

leading my life through the best chances one could imagine, regardless of who I am. I would like to express my sincere appreciation and thanks to my promoter, Prof. Dr. Ir. F. De Smedt, for his encouragement, comments, suggestions and constant support throughout my research work and my co-promoter Dr. J. Moeyersons of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium, for providing data, his comments, suggestions and assisting till the end of the study. I would like to acknowledge VLIR MU-IUC for granting me the scholarship to study Physical Land Resource option in Engineering Geology in Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. Many thanks also go to Drs. Tesfamichael Gebreyohannes, Drs. Getachew Adem, Drs. Ashenafi Adebo and Ms Cosemans Anja for their valuable support. I would like to thank all my Professors, class mates and staff members of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering Department for the wonderful time I had in the course of the program. Finally but not least, I would like to thank all my parents, friends, brothers and sister for the encouragement and nice advises during my stay in Brussels, Belgiu