Por ser el Comité Nacional la máxima instancia del Sistema Nacional para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres,

The money will be mainly used to purchase emergency shelters, food, mattresses, blankets and drinking water. The Federal Foreign Office funds will go to German relief organizations active on the ground and will be deployed in close coordination with the German Consulate-General in Porto Alegre.

Floods and landslides in the Brazilian federal state of Santa Catarina have claimed the lives of at least 100 people, while many others are still missing. Almost 80,000 people had to

FECHA/HORA

a. Domingo 30 de Noviembre de 2008

b. 14:00 Horas

SITUACION

a. Naturaleza del desastre

Death toll reaches 112 from rains in Brazil, epidemics feared

Florianopolis, Brazil_(dpa) _ The death toll from heavy rains in southern Brazil reached 112 by the end of the week, as fears grew of possible health epidemics among more than 1 million people affected by the storms...More

Brazil: Thousands cut off by severe floods

Sixty days of rain in Santa Catarina

Forecast until mid-January 2009

The Desert Locust situation continued to remain calm in November. In the Western Region, small-scale breeding caused locust numbers to increase slightly in northwest Mauritania and in southern Algeria while scattered adults persisted in northeast Chad. In the Central Region, scattered adults were present in the winter breeding areas along both sides of the Red Sea and egg-laying occurred in Eritrea. In the Eastern Region, hoppers and adults persisted in the summer breeding areas in Pakistan near the Indian border.

Panamá, 1 de diciembre de 2008 - Más de 23,500 personas han sido afectadas por las recientes lluvias e inundaciones en la Rep=FAblica de Panamá, en las áreas de Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, la comarca Ngobe Buglé y Colón, al oeste y este de Panamá. UNICEF y el Sistema de Naciones Unidas en Panamá apoyan a las comunidades y al Estado en la recuperación de las personas, comunidades y áreas.

Seg=FAn cifras oficiales, 23,547 personas

Fuentes de los servicios de socorro informaron que las lluvias, que azotan el territorio nacional desde mediados de septiembre, dejan también unos 80 heridos, 9 desaparecidos y más de 750.000 personas damnificadas.

El comandante del cuerpo de bomberos de municipio de Trujillo, Miguel Ángel Castillo, dijo que el agricultor,

- District 4650 is collecting financial

HIGHLIGHTS

- Heavy rains and floods affected more than 23,600 people and claimed 10 lives. An UNDAC Team was deployed on 29 November.

- Some 11,670 persons are in 44 temporary shelters. The affected population is in need of food, water, and blankets.

- Information management, transportation and distribution of relief remain a challenge.

SITUATION

1. Due to a cold front, heavy rains in