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Pakistan: World Vision says emergency will "get worse before it gets better"

...month after the flooding in Pakistan began, World Vision says the emergency in Pakistan will get worse before it...clothes they escaped the floods in, and trying to keep their...the flooding ...

Suicide Blast Hits Pakistan Minority Mosque

The attack, which authorities said had killed at least one person, targeted the Ahmadi Mosque in the town of Mardan.

Cholera deaths in Western Kenya hit eight

The death toll from cholera outbreak in Migori and Kuria West district about five hundred kilometers west of Nairobi has now hit eight after three more people succumbed to the disease. According ...

Iran's Satellite TV Goes Green

Iran's Green Movement officially launched a new satellite TV channel this week in an effort to defy censorship and break the state's monopoly on information.

Situation humanitaire en Republique Democratique du Congo - Note dinformation a la presse, 1er septembre 2010

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Update: SOS Children Response to Pakistan Floods

Update on the emergency relief work by SOS Children after flooding in Pakistan. From Friday 3rd September 2010

WHO: Weekly epidemiological record No. 36, 2010, 85, 349356

Water and sanitation in health emergencies: the role of WHO in the response to the earthquake in Haiti, 12 January 2010 Environmental disasters or armed confl icts frequently give rise to health ...

COLOMBIA - Colombian Vice President Announces Government's Intent to Work with IOM on the Restitution of Lands

Regarding internal displacement, the discussions focused on violence and its direct impact on migration citing the case of Colombia, where some three million persons are internally displaced and ...

PAKISTAN - Sindh Shelter Needs Overwhelming as Floods Roll South

PAKISTAN - Sindh Shelter Needs Overwhelming as Floods Roll South - As Pakistan's flood waters continue to engulf towns and villages bordering the Indus river in southern Sindh, the need for ...

Guatemala: Imagines satelitales definen areas con alto riesgo de deslaves

Guatemala, Solola, Alta y Baja Verapaz son los departamentos con mas alto riesgo de deslaves y derrumbes, segun las imagenes satelitales que muestran la saturacion de agua en el terreno.

Tropical storm Lionrock brings heavy rainfall to SE China regions

GUANGZHOU, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Tropical storm Lionrock continued to bring widespread rain Friday to southeast China, as its was downgraded to a tropical low pressure front in Guangdong Province ...

Lluvias en Mexico dejan al menos 7 muertos y decenas de miles de afectados

Los estados de Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas y Oaxaca llevan varios días con numerosos municipios anegados por el agua y en algunos de ellos se mantiene la alerta maxima ante la prevision de nuevos ...

Pakistan Taliban take responsibility for bombings

Wednesday's blasts in the eastern city of Lahore in which 33 people were killed was the first major militant attack since floods waters tore through the country over the past month.

Riots in Mozambique kill seven

The Mozambique got back to work on Friday after two days of rioting, triggered by a sharp hike in bread prices, which the government said left seven dead, 288 injured. Buses resumed normal service ...

Q+A-What does the $450 mln IMF flood aid mean for Pakistan?

03 Sep 2010 07:33:31 GMT By Faisal Aziz and Sahar Ahmed KARACHI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday it will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid ...

Pakistan fishermen struggling a month after floods

Today, Shabir is furious: he says it has been 10 days since the river retreated from the land but no one from the army or the Pakistani government has come to help him.

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 3

03 Sep 2010 05:58:19 GMT Sept 3 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0545 GMT on Friday. BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a police officer's car wounded him and killed his ...

Pakistan: HHRD Flood Response Update September 3, 2010

The worst Record Flooding in Pakistan- HHRD committed Response 158,000 flood affectees received health care, food , tents and utensils etc. - HHRD held 314 medical camps, treated 60,000 patients - ...

Life after the deluge in Pakistan

By Laura Sheahen, Catholic Relief Services (CRS is a Caritas member from the USA) When floodwaters rose in his village in southern Pakistan, Muhammad Idrees spent the long, hot days floating.

NIGER: Pres de 200 000 personnes deplacees par les inondations

DAKAR, 1 septembre 2010 (IRIN) - Les abondantes precipitations qui continuent de s'abattre sur le Niger ont entraine une augmentation du nombre de personnes deplacees suite aux inondations.