Reporting Monday 31 December 2012 Following displacement of families in different parts of the country, the Kenya Red cross Society (KRCS) is in the process of distributing both food and non- food...
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Displaced families appeal for aid from State and relief agencies
Displaced families in Nyando district have appealed for humanitarian assistance from the government and relief agencies following the deluge of misery that has befallen them in the past few weeks. ...
400 made homeless by floods as fear of landslides spooks villagers
In Summary Rivers Nyando, Nyalbiego and Awasi breach their banks under heavy rains and sweep away houses, livestock and property at two villages in Nyando More than 400 people have been rendered...
Over 70 families Displaced as River Nyando Breaks its Banks
Reporting Saturday 29 th December 2012 as of 4:30pm The Kenya Red Cross Society is responding to yet another disaster after River Nyando in West Kenya Region broke it's banks today. The River burst...
Death Toll Rises to eleven in Kerio Valley Mudslide
Reporting Saturday 29th December 2012 at 1720 hrs The death toll in Kerio Valley mudslide has risen to eleven after one more body was retrived by locals and Kenya Red Cross Society response...
Rains causes Havoc in Nairobi
Several people are displaced with two confirmed dead following heavy down pour in Nairobi. The heavy rainfall reported in most parts of the country since Wednesday night until today Thursday have...
City downpour claims one, destroys property
By NATION CORRESPONDENT Posted Friday, December 28 2012 at 00:30 In Summary About 500 families that dwell in the Kware slums spent their night in the cold, with those residing in nearby flats trapped...
MSF opens new clinic in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city
DECEMBER 27, 2012 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) together with Sina Health, Education and Welfare Trust (SINA) has opened a new clinic in Karachi’s Machar Colony to provide...
Heavy rain cause havoc nationwide
By EMMANUEL TOILI@ke.nationmedia.com Heavy downpour that began on Wednesday evening has wrecked havoc nationwide with numerous properties becoming flooded. Kenya Red Cross on their official Twitter...
Meeting basic needs in Philippines after super tyhpoon
By Jennifer Hardy, CRS Communications Officer When Typhoon Bopha swept through Mindanao in the Philippines on 3 December, hundreds of thousands of people found themselves without shelter that night...
Pakistan: Monsoon Flash Floods (MDRPK006) - Two-Year Consolidated Report
Period covered by this Operational Update: 2 August 2010 to 31 August 2012 Appeal target (current): CHF 92.6 million Appeal coverage: 98%; Appeal history: · * Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF):...
Humanitarian Bulletin Pakistan Issue 10 | 17 December 2012
Highlights Thousands of families remain in need of critical humanitarian assistance in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and in flood-affected areas of southern Pakistan. Most humanitarian projects to end in...
Transitional School Structures Prove Resistant to Floodwaters
Pakistan’s 2010 monsoonal floods were one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the last 50 years. More than 20 million people were affected. Vast areas of land were under water. Homes, hospitals,...
Somalia + 6 more
Humanitarian assistance and rehabilitation for selected countries and regions - Report of the Secretary-General (A/67/367)
Summary The present report is prepared pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 66/9 and 66/120. It provides an update and analysis of the current challenges facing the delivery of humanitarian...
More milk and more money: Australia-Pakistan research improving farmers’ incomes
In Pakistan, 109 million people, or 63 per cent of the population, live in rural areas. Agriculture is the backbone of employment in rural areas and generates 21 per cent of Pakistan’s GDP, not to...
Nicaragua + 1 more
Rusia y Sistema de las Naciones Unidas entregan techo para afectados por tormenta tropical 12-E
Managua, 10 de diciembre, 2012/ El Sr. Guillermo González, Secretario Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional para la Prevención, Mitigación y Atención (SINAPRED), recibió del Sr. Nicolai Vladimir, Embajador...
Failure of the institutions related to the rule of law provides impunity to the perpetrators of violations human rights
A. Summary of the Annual Report 2012 The PPP-led government under President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Ministers Yousaf Raza Gillani and Raja Pervez Ashraf has made some effort to improve the...
The expanded program on immunization in Pakistan: recommendations for improving performance
Abstract The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in Pakistan protects against eight vaccine-preventable diseases and immunizes children below 23 months of age. The program was implemented under...
World + 5 more
Climate Change: Natural disasters made history in 2011
JOHANNESBURG, 27 November 2012 (IRIN) - Many of the worst natural disasters of 2011 were also the most severe the affected countries had ever experienced, revealed the Global Climate Risk Index (CRI)...
ACTED’s intervention ensures manifold benefits for flood-affected communities
ISLAMABAD [ACTED News] - Many households remain extremely vulnerable in the wake of the 2011 floods in Sindh, Southern Pakistan, as 41% of communities across this region have borderline or poor food...