Pós-desastres e pós-conflitos

Haiti – Reconstruction : Presentation of the Strategic Development Plan of Haiti to ECOSOC

Published in Tuesday August 7th, 2012 In In the media

August 6, 2012 The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), that held end of July in New York, its annual substantive session for 2012, discussed on the situation in Haiti, with Ms. Josépha Raymond Gauthier, the Haitian Minister of Planning and External Cooperation. During this meeting, Ms. Gauthier presented the progress made in the […]

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In China, Zhouqu mudslide victims to move into new homes

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 6, 2012 The 2,700 families who lost their homes in a devastating mudslide that claimed more than 1,500 lives two years ago in Northwest China’s Gansu province will move into new apartments by the end of the year, local authorities said. A total of 3,580 apartments have been distributed to the families, said Yi […]

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In Nigeria, flood displaces 100 persons in Nguru

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 6, 2012 Over 100 people were displaced yesterday after a heavy downpour that destroyed more than 50 houses in different locations in Nguru town of Yobe State. Daily Trust gathered that the rainfall, which started around 1pm and lasted more than four hours, destroyed many buildings at Bulaburin, Tsohuwar Nguru and Unguwar Kanuri areas […]

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Kenya: 200 Pokot Resettled

Published in Friday August 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 1st, 2012 More than 200 Pokot pastoralist families displaced by armed conflict at the Kenya-Uganda border have been resettled in Orolwo village in Pokot North District by a local non governmental organisation. The affected families that reside in Kanyerus, Asilong and Konyao locations were routed from their villages, due to frequent crossborder cattle rustling […]

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Disaster Relief Fund for India

Published in Tuesday July 31st, 2012 In Mobilisation and agenda

Incessant rainfall in Assam during the last week of June resulted in heavy flooding in Brahmaputra and its tributaries. 77 people have lost their life and more than 10,00,000 people from 27 districts have been affected, several thousands of people rendered homeless and several thousands of hectares of agricultural lands inundated by flood waters causing […]

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Liberia: Help to the West Point Fire Victims

Published in Tuesday July 31st, 2012 In In the media

July 31, 2012 EDITORIAL We are heartily pleading with the Government of Liberia (GOL), local and international humanitarian organizations, people of goodwill among others to help the West Point fire victims. On Saturday, July 28, 2012, fire gutted 32 houses in the Township of West Point, rendering several persons, including women, children and the elderly […]

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North Korea Floods: Dozens Killed, Thousands Homeless After Torrential Rains

Published in Monday July 30th, 2012 In In the media

July 28, 2012 Severe flooding across North Korea has killed 88 people and left tens of thousands homeless, state media reported late on Saturday, threatening to make the poverty-stricken country’s already chronic food shortage still worse. The floods caused by torrential rains and a typhoon this month caused “big human and material losses”, North Korea’s […]

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Under water and under fire in Beijing

Published in Monday July 30th, 2012 In In the media

July 28, 2012 As the capital floods, its government carries the can FOR a capital city which, unusually, is situated neither on a coastline nor along the banks of a big river, Beijing has been under water a lot of late. In June last year violent rainstorms overwhelmed the antiquated drainage system, inundating roads and […]

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Some 850 Roma refugees in Montenegro displaced after fire destroys their settlement

Published in Thursday July 26th, 2012 In In the media

It was the only home Selija Hisenaj knew since she was forced out of war-torn Kosovo 13 years ago, and now it’s gone too. The 30-year-old mother of seven is among hundreds of Roma, or Gypsies, from Kosovo who are living in tents after a fire burned down their settlement on the outskirts of the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica.

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Thousands evacuate in Japanese floods

Published in Monday July 16th, 2012 In In the media

Evacuation orders have been issued to about 260,000 people on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu as torrential rain pounded the area for a third day on Saturday. The orders were issued in four prefectures, with at least 78,000 residents in Fukuoka prefecture alone being told to leave their homes after more rivers burst their banks. Designated shelters have been set up in schools and public facilities.

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