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10 Apr 2013

World + 22 others
Land degradation damaging global agricultural production, warns new UN study

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— UN News Service

9 April 2013 – The international community is losing vast amounts of agricultural production due to the effects of continuing land degradation such as desertification, a new United Nations study has warned, adding that without sustainable land management, development initiatives the world over will be stymied.

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04 Jan 2013

Réunion (France)
Passage du cyclone Dumile

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— Government of France

Le ministre des Outre-mer, Victorin Lurel, adresse au nom du gouvernement un message de solidarité aux Réunionnaises et aux Réunionnais après le passage du cyclone Dumile aux abords de l’île de La Réunion ce jeudi.

Le ministre s’est tenu informé heure par heure de l’évolution de la situation par les autorités préfectorales. Il s’est entretenu jeudi soir avec des élus réunionnais qui lui ont communiqué des informations globalement rassurantes malgré la violence du phénomène.

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03 Jan 2013

Réunion (France)
Cyclone lashes Reunion

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— Agence France-Presse

01/03/2013 16:21 GMT

SAINT-DENIS-DE-LA-REUNION, France, Jan 03, 2013 (AFP) - Nearly 100,000 homes on Reunion were left without electricity on Thursday after a cyclone came close to scoring a direct hit on the French Indian Ocean island.

Winds of up to 180 kilometres per hour (110 miles per hour) and torrential rain caused extensive damage to the electricity network after cyclone Dumile passed within 90 kilometres of the island's west coast at around 0900 GMT.

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02 Jan 2013

Réunion (France)
France/La Réunion : dizaines de milliers de foyers sans électricité après un cyclone

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— Agence France-Presse

01/03/2013 13:32 GMT

SAINT-DENIS-DE-LA-REUNION (France), 03 jan 2013 (AFP) - Des dizaines de milliers de foyers étaient privés jeudi d'électricité après le passage du cyclone tropical Dumile à 90 km de la côté ouest de La Réunion, île française de l'Océan indien.

Les principaux dommages de Dumile concernaient le réseau électrique, des fils ayant été arrachés par le vent ou des branchages. Selon un bilan établi dans la matinée, 68.000 foyers étaient privés de courant, en majorité dans l'ouest et le sud de cette île française.

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17 May 2012

United Republic of Tanzania + 5 others
Zanzibar pushes to join island alliance to confront climate change

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— AlertNet

By Mohamed Issa

MIGOMBANI, Zanzibar (AlertNet) – The East African archipelago of Zanzibar is attempting to win “environmental independence” from Tanzania by joining an organisation that promotes the sustainable development of islands in the Indian Ocean.

Zanzibar has lodged a formal membership application with the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), a regional cooperation body whose current members are Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Reunion.

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11 Apr 2012

Indonesia + 6 others
Tsunami warnings relaxed after Indonesia quakes

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— Agence France-Presse

04/11/2012 20:06 GMT

by Nurdin Hasan

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, April 11, 2012 (AFP) - A tsunami watch around the Indian Ocean was lifted hours after two massive earthquakes struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island Wednesday, sending terrified people fleeing from the coast.

The 8.6-magnitude quake hit 431 kilometres (268 miles) off the city of Banda Aceh at 0838 GMT, and was followed by another undersea quake measured at 8.2, the US Geological Survey said.

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26 Feb 2007

Madagascar + 3 others
Indian Ocean: Bracing for yet another cyclone

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— IRIN
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]

JOHANNESBURG, 26 February 2007 (IRIN) - Madagascar is bracing for yet another cyclone as "Gamede" it makes its way across the Indian Ocean. Gamede has already taken its toll in the neighbouring Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and La Reunion claiming two lives and injuring nine respectively.

According to Gianluca Ferrera, deputy director of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) in Madagascar, the authorities "are absolutely on alert and closely monitoring the direction it [Gamede]

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25 Jan 2002

Madagascar + 2 others
Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion: Cyclone Dina information bulletin No. 1

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— IFRC
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This Bulletin is intended for information only. The Federation is not seeking any funding or other assistance from donors for this operation at this time.

The Situation

The cyclone season in the Indian Ocean area lasts roughly from January until mid-April, and meteorological services have predicted that this year's season will be very active. The latest storm, Cyclone Dina, hit the islands of Mauritius and Reunion late in the evening of Wednesday, January 22. With wind speeds of over 200 kms per

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24 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
Le cyclone Dina traverse l'île de la Réunion

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— Caritas
Le cyclone Dina a traversé l'île de la Réunion mardi 22 janvier. Les précipitations et la violence des vents, qui ont parfois dépassé les 250 km/h, ont causé d'énormes dégâts matériels.
Le président de la délégation du Secours Catholique de la Réunion, Axel Huguet, joint au téléphone jeudi 24 janvier , faisait état du nombre d'infrastructures touchées : « les routes sont coupées par des inondations et des éboulements, l'électricité est coupée dans des nombreuses communes de l'île, dans le nord et le sud-ouest de nombreuses maisons ont été endommagées. » Le quart de la population est
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23 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
Reunion island counts cost after cyclone

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— Agence France-Presse
SAINT-DENIS, Reunion, Jan 23 (AFP) - The French Indian Ocean island of Reunion was Wednesday struggling to cope with widespread property damage and energy cuts after being savaged by a cyclone packing winds of up to 250 kilometres (155 miles) per hour.

"Severe damage" had been caused to buildings and electricity and water networks by cyclone Dina, which hit Tuesday, Reunion's prefect, or top government official, Gonthier Friederici, said. Two people were injured.

Half the island's homes were without power, 2,500 people were in emergency shelters and fallen trees, downed

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23 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
Cyclone Dina wreaks havoc on Reunion

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— Pan African News Agency
Saint Denis, Reunion (PANA) - Bad weather conditions on Tuesday hampered relief workers and security officials from visiting Reunion's eastern an northern coastal areas, which were badly affected by the tropical cyclone Dina.
The storm caused extensive damage to houses, crops and infrastructure in the two areas, with gusts of up to 250km per hour.

Officials could not travel to the area because the cyclone devastated roads, caused landslides and floods.

The cyclone has severed power from over 100,000 households or half the island's population, while more than 1,000

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23 Jan 2002

Réunion (France)
Paris dispatches support to Reunion after cyclone

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— Pan African News Agency
By Christophe Rocheland
PANA correspondent
Saint Denis, Reunion (PANA) - French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin Wednesday ordered the dispatching an airforce plane with 200 experts to Reunion where cyclone Dina caused untold casualties Tuesday.

He said 120 civil security men, 50 agents of France's Electricity Intervention Force and the Overseas Minister, Christian Paul, will be sent to Reunion.

An official statement said France has also granted Reunion's prefect for extreme emergency rescue in most difficult situations.

Meanwhile, French President Jacques Chirac

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