AQABA, 29 April 2013 (IRIN) - Prevention may be better than a cure, but for the authorities in Arab cities and towns, natural disasters up to now have been largely about coping with them after they have taken place.
"We react to disasters without any planning; we just go for the response, and you know that without any planning you can't do the proper things," Abdulmalek Al-Jolahy, first deputy minister at Yemen's Ministry of Public Works and Highways, told IRIN.