Nairobi, 19th December 2012 … The Republic of Slovakia has joined other development partners in supporting the elections in Kenya. Through the basket fund for elections management, the Government of Slovakia contributed one million Kenya shillings that will assist the IEBC manage the upcoming general elections.

Press Briefing Notes Tuesday 12th June 2012 Spokesperson: Chris Lom

The Kurdish Regional Government in Northern Iraq has appealed to IOM and other international agencies for more help to cope with growing numbers of refugees arriving from Syria.

According to Shakir Yasseen Yasseen, Director General of the Regional Government's Bureau of Migration and Development (BMD), the number of Syrian refugees sheltering in Kurdistan's Domiz refugee camp near Dahuk has increased to over 3,500 in the past month.

After unusually mild weather in December 2011 and early January 2012 almost all over Europe, the weather situation changed abruptly in the second half of January. An incursion of cold polar air, coming from northern Russia at the south flank of an extensive high pressure area brought a sudden cooling to almost the whole Eurasian continent). During that cold spell, also some considerable snowfall occurred over various parts of the continent. In the first half of February, the cold wave started weakening first in Asia and in mid-February also in Europe.

Participatory Assessment 2010 Report

Foreword

This report of the UNHCR Regional Representation for Central Europe’s annual Participatory Assessment gives a summary of the situation for asylum-seekers, refugees and people with subsidiary protection in the region, as they reported it to UNHCR and other members of the research teams in 2010.

Budget ? 31-03-2011 - 16:51

Committee: Budgets

Plans to release €182.4 million in EU Solidarity Fund aid to help repair the flood damage in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia and Romania in 2010 were approved by the Budgets Committee on Thursday, despite MEPs' strong reservations about the funding method chosen by the Council. The direct cost of the damage is estimated at about €5.5 billion.

MEPs disapproved of the source of the funding, a "negative reserve", as proposed by the Council of

Summary: 26 October 2010, Brussels - The communication adopted today by the European Commission, represents a first step towards the development of a reinforced EU disaster response capacity, both in terms of civil protection and humanitarian assistance. These are the two instruments used by the EU to deliver relief assistance to people affected by disasters. The creation of a European Emergency Response Capacity, based on Member States' assets, and the development of a European Emergency Response Centre, are proposed as the cornerstones of strategy to strengthen

WARSAW - Warsaw braced Monday for a new flood crest on the mighty Vistula river, as Budapest sandbagged its tourist quarter against the swollen Danube and Slovakia reeled from its worst flood in centuries.

Heavy rains pounding central and eastern Europe have broken defences all along the Vistula, Poland's largest river which winds from the mountainous south to the Baltic Sea in the north, causing weeks of flooding.

The crest, or high point of the flood, is moving north and is forecast to surge into the Polish capital in the

02 Jun 2010 17:37:08 GMT

(Adds Croatia floods, para 10)

PRAGUE, June 2 (Reuters) - Heavy rains triggered new floods in central Europe on Wednesday, killing at least two people in the Czech Republic and forcing thousands from their homes in Slovakia and Hungary.

Flooding around the region in the past month has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and killed 18 in Poland. Meteorologists expect rains to keep up until the weekend in parts of central Europe.

Officials called a state of emergency in the southeast of the Czech Republic and one man died when his car crashed

* Rains, winds hit Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic

* Thousands evacuated, power outages in some areas

WARSAW, May 17 (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by days of heavy rain have killed at least four people, forced mass evacuations and cut off power to thousands in central Europe and weather forecasts offered no hope of respite in coming days.

In southern Poland, one woman in her 60s and a 45-year-old man perished on Monday in separate incidents after being washed away by flood waters, officials and local media reported.

The Polish interior ministry said it