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

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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 - ...

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.

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.

Une mission inter-argences des Nations unies conduite le week-end dernier a Katogota et a Kamanyola, dans la plaine de la Ruzizi, a evalue les besoins de plus cinq cent quatre-vingts menages de ...

By Ngor Arol Garang September 02, 2010 (RENK) - Some 89,000 people have so far been affected by the floods which swamped south Sudan's state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal over the past month, ...

Source: UNHCR UNHCR is very concerned by on-going forced returns of Iraqi citizens from Western European countries. On September 1st, a chartered flight with 61 people on board, mainly Iraqis who ...

Source: UNHCR Despite flood waters receding in some parts of Pakistan and more people returning home, the overall humanitarian situation is still very grave. Conditions in the thousands of ...

Source: Reuters KHARTOUM, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Armed men attacked villages in a rebel-held area of Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region on Thursday and Friday, leaving dozens dead, the rebels said. ...