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02 Sep 2010 15:26:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
* IMF provides relief
* Government faces renewed Taliban violence
* Aid agencies face hostilities from flood victims
(Releads with IMF, adds analyst quote)
By Mubasher Bukhari
LAHORE, Pakistan, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in Washington on Thursday that the funds would be dispersed in "coming weeks".
Strauss-Kahn said discussions with a delegation led by Pakistan's Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on how to "reorganise" an $11…
02 Sep 2010 13:40:00 GMT
Written by: Nita Bhalla
NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Aid workers are at risk of overlooking threats to their safety in Pakistan in the scramble to help millions of people hit by floods, analysts say.
With an area the size of Italy inundated and massive challenges in distributing aid, aid workers may be tempted to improvise when it comes to security, a risky strategy in the volatile country where attacks by Taliban-linked militants are frequent.
"It's reasonable to expect that some security restrictions have been…
02 Sep 2010 13:40:00 GMT
Written by: Nita Bhalla
NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Aid workers are at risk of overlooking threats to their safety in Pakistan in the scramble to help millions of people hit by floods, analysts say.
With an area the size of Italy inundated and massive challenges in distributing aid, aid workers may be tempted to improvise when it comes to security, a risky strategy in the volatile country where attacks by Taliban-linked militants are frequent.
"It's reasonable to expect that some security restrictions have been…
By the CNN Wire StaffSeptember 2, 2010 10:20 a.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Three people died after Typhoon Kompasu hit central South Korea Thursday morning, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
Kompasu also halted much of the metropolitan area's subway service, toppled trees and caused widespread power outages, the agency said. Airlines canceled or diverted domestic and international flights.
According to Yonhap: A flying roof tile killed an 80-year-old man in Seosan, South Chungcheong province. A broken tree branch fatally struck a 37-year-old man in Bundang,…
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* UNICEF director says rarely seen such trauma
By Myra MacDonald
KOT ADDU, Pakistan, Aug 31 (Reuters) - For some of the children caught up in Pakistan's floods, the most frightening moment of their lives was the day before the water hit.
"People were scared and running everywhere. There were so many rumours," said 11-year-old Mehboob, one of the millions of people who fled their homes in…
31 Aug 2010 08:41:51 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Anger rising over lack of medical care
* Sleeping on hospital floors
* Worries over economy
By Kamran Haider
MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Victims of Pakistan's floods queued to get medical treatment on Tuesday as doctors complained of a shortage of medical supplies to treat a rising number of patients.
Monsoon floods have receded in some areas but aid agencies fear disease, food shortages and malnutrition may create new crises as people head back to their shattered towns and villages and try to rebuild their homes and lives.
"Whatever stock of medicines we have is about to finish and…
30 Aug 2010 18:15:00 GMT
Source: Church World Service
Petite Riviere de l'Artibonite, Haiti -- It was nearing the end of another hot, sunny day near Petite Riviere in the northern department, or province, of Artibonite, and Arnold Alcim� stood on his two-acre plot of land and shook his head in frustration.
Life as a farmer has never been more difficult than it is now, said the octogenarian, recalling earlier times when credit and new equipment were easier to get and when the land itself seemed to suffer less.
Though this seemingly lush…
31 Aug 2010 09:10:47 GMT
Source: Reuters
Villagers evacuated from around Mount Sinabung volcano, wait at a shelter in Brastagi outside Medan, North Sumatra. The volcano has erupted for the first time in four centuries, sending smoke 1.5 km (about 5,000 feet) into the air. REUTERS/Tarmizy Harva
BRASTAGI, Indonesia, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Thousands of Indonesian villagers evacuated when a volcano erupted for the first time in four centuries returned home on Tuesday, but officials said it was uncertain whether the threat from the…
27 Aug 2010 17:22:28 GMT
Source: IRIN
DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) - Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is calling on donors and aid agencies to urgently send shelter materials, blankets and mosquito nets.
"Response in rural areas has been slow thus far," the head of OCHA in Niger, Modibo Traoré, told IRIN. Flood-displaced families in remote the Diffa…
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