The world has experienced three consecutive years where annual economic losses have exceeded $100 billion due to an enormous increase in exposure of industrial assets to extreme disaster events.
World + 8 more
World + 8 more
The world has experienced three consecutive years where annual economic losses have exceeded $100 billion due to an enormous increase in exposure of industrial assets to extreme disaster events.
Paraguay + 4 more
DESTACADOS: PARAGUAY: Las autoridades estiman que aún hay 10,000 familias en necesidad alimentaria. CUBA: Un inusual brote de cólera en la provincia de Granma ha dejado tres muertos. PERÚ: Las autoridades han movilizado más de 92,000 frazadas a las zonas afectadas por las heladas.
Mexico + 4 more
HIGHLIGHTS: PERU: Cold Weather affects about 11,665 people in the Andean region. MEXICO: Hurricane Carlotta affected more than 12,000 families in the state of Oaxaca BOLIVIA: More than 720 confirmed cases of influenza AH1N1.
South Sudan + 1 more
Highlights: • Emergency food supplies sufficient to feed more than 10,000 people for one month are en route to Agok, where people remain displaced since conflict broke out in Abyei some five months ago. • Food security has deteriorated due to insecurity, low agricultural production and high...
Sudan + 1 more
Watch the Webcast SC/10406 Security Council 6628th Meeting (AM) Following Briefing, Council Pressed to Set Deadline for Withdrawal of Northern Troops; Also Warned of ‘Security Vacuum’ Unless UN Interim Force Fully Deployed Sudan and South Sudan had shown that they could cooperate on matters...
South Sudan + 1 more
Highlights: • Flash flooding affects displaced Abyei population in Agok and hampers relief effort. • Humanitarian response underway in Jonglei State to persons affected by recent clashes, despite continued tensions. • People continue to arrive from conflict in South Kordofan in Sudan to Unity...
GENEVA, 9 August 2011 (IRIN) - Disaster-scarred Haiti heaved a sigh of relief after emerging relatively unscathed at the beginning of August when tropical storm Emily skirted the capital Port-au-Prince, where more than 600,000 people still live in camps with little protection from the elements. But...
La tempête tropicale Emily s’est éloignée d’Haïti. Mais la vigilance reste de mise , en raison des menaces de fortes pluies qui subsitent. Lors du point de presse hebdomadaire de la Mission de stabilisation des Nations Unies en Haïti ( MINUSTAH), le 5 aout au Quartier général de la...