News from category: Natural Disasters
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A flood-damaged home in Goz Beida, eastern Chad
DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) – Flooding across Chad has destroyed homes, crops, livestock, wells and latrines in communities already pummelled by food shortages and high …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien pastoralists waiting for aid in Diffa (file photo)
DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) – Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien pastoralists waiting for aid in Diffa (file photo)
DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) – Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 …
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Heavy flooding in parts of Ethiopia has displaced thousands (file photo)
ADDIS ABABA, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) – Heavy flooding in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia has displaced more than 8,000 people, say …
Photo: Phuong Tran/IRIN
Nearly half of Africa’s population does not have access to safe drinking water
JOHANNESBURG, 19 August 2010 (IRIN) – A cheap and effective filtering device developed by a South African university could …
Photo: IRIN
KINSHASA, 18 August 2010 (IRIN) – About 3,000 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo’s Equateur province are still suffering the effects of a flood caused by torrential rains which began in late …
Photo: IRIN
KINSHASA, 18 August 2010 (IRIN) – About 3,000 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo’s Equateur province are still suffering the effects of a flood caused by torrential rains which began in late …
Photo: Mike Pflanz/IRIN
Aid workers say the establishment of disaster rescue centres in the northern Kenya would minimize humanitarian crises (file photo)
GARBATULLA, 13 August 2010 (IRIN) – Response to disasters and emergencies in northern …
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On the loose in Madagascar: Locusta migratoria capito
JOHANNESBURG, 13 August 2010 (IRIN) – Swarms of locusts have been forming in the South Madagascar for months threatening the livelihoods of hundreds and thousands of …
Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN
Countries like Eritrea are looking at wind energy
JOHANNESBURG, 9 August 2010 (IRIN) – Crops that mature faster and are tolerant of more frequent and intense droughts top the list of how most …
Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN
Countries like Eritrea are looking at wind energy
JOHANNESBURG, 9 August 2010 (IRIN) – Crops that mature faster and are tolerant of more frequent and intense droughts top the list of how most …
Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN
Countries like Eritrea are looking at wind energy
JOHANNESBURG, 9 August 2010 (IRIN) – Crops that mature faster and are tolerant of more frequent and intense droughts top the list of how most …
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Flooding in Swedru Township, Ghana
DAKAR, 2 August 2010 (IRIN) – The 2010 rainy season in West Africa has opened with hail storms in Guinea and the heaviest rain in 50 years …
Photo: Tomas de Mul/IRIN
At risk: Lemurs are endemic to Madagascar
JOHANNESBURG, 28 July 2010 (IRIN) – Vast portions of Madagascar’s unique biodiversity could be lost – possibly forever, and at incalculable cost to ordinary Malagasy …
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Fresh cocoa drying in Cote d’Ivoire
ABIDJAN, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) – An outbreak of black pod disease in the southwestern cocoa-producing area of Côte d’Ivoire, is slashing harvests for thousands of local farmers. …
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Fresh cocoa drying in Cote d’Ivoire
ABIDJAN, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) – An outbreak of black pod disease in the southwestern cocoa-producing area of Côte d’Ivoire, is slashing harvests for thousands of local farmers. …
