During previous disasters, some of the worst-affected areas were cut off from aid for weeks. Responses were further undermined by incoherence among aid agencies.
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Bolivia: Country needs coordinated policies to tackle climate change; only little research available
By Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Jun 29 2012 (IPS) - The effects of climate change are causing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in losses of crops, livestock and housing in Bolivia. But the few climate change adaptation and prevention policies adopted by the authorities are piecemeal and fragmented,...
Haiti + 5 more
Dominican Republic: More than 11,000 people evacuated due to floods
HIGHLIGHTS: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Some 11,150 people evacuated in the north due to floods. HAITI: Rains cause 6 deaths and affect 10,000 people. BOLIVIA: La Nina affects more than 259,000 people.
Paraguay + 8 more
Suramérica: El impacto de 'La Niña' resalta la necesidad de usar los diferentes niveles del sistema de respuesta a emergencias
Enrique Jair Guevara El fenómeno meteorológico conocido como La Niña el cual causo sequias en Paraguay, ha una vez mas causado condiciones climáticas adversas en la región. Fuertes lluvias durante los pasado cuatro meses continúan causando inundaciones y deslaves en varios países de Sur...
Peru + 3 more
Peru: Heavy rains cause floods, landslides in mountains of Lima; over 1,600 people homeless
HIGHLIGHTS: PERU: Landslide in the district of Chosica, Lima leaves more than 5,990 people affected. BOLIVIA: The rainy season has left 165 municipalities and more than 32,280 families affected. ECUADOR: Since January the government have provided humanitarian assistance to 20,000 people...
Afghanistan: Death toll from avalanche expected to climb due to prolonged inaccessibility of the area
This report is produced by OCHA Afghanistan in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It covers the period place on 6-8 March 2012. I. KEY MESSAGES 50 people are reported dead and another 146 believed to be under the snow due to avalanche emergency in Dispay, Shaki District, Badakhshan...
Afghanistan: Time to get serious about IDPs and protection, Refugees Intl says
by Matt Pennington It’s been quite a month for those of us following the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. On February 3, the New York Times exposed one of the terrible tragedies of this year’s abnormally harsh winter: the deaths of at least 24 children in Kabul’s IDP settlements. The UN...
Afghanistan: More children could die from cold in brutal winter, warns Save the Children
Following reports that at least 28 children living in camps near Kabul have already died because of freezing temperatures, Save the Children is warning that even more could die from cold in what is Afghanistan's worst winter for 15 years. The children’s charity has launched a rapid response to get...
Bolivia: Sobrecarga en los servicios hospitalarios por incremento de casos graves de dengue
I. PUNTOS DESTACADOS · Desde el mes de octubre a la fecha está en ascenso una epidemia de dengue y dengue severo en los departamentos del país con excepción de Potosí y Oruro. · Un total de 6.595 familias afectadas en los 9 Departamentos a causa de las precipitaciones pluviales, a la fecha se...
Afghanistan + 2 more
Afghanistan: Border with Pakistan closed for over two months; relief supplies delayed
HIGHLIGHTS Some 6,000 people newly displaced in January due to conflict and security, down from last month. 45% increase in conflict induced IDP’s compared to January 2011 Avalanches kill 43 people and injure 65 in Badakhshan and kill two people in Daykundi Humanitarian Coordinator...
Afghanistan: Avalanches severely hamper aid delivery
Heavy snow and avalanches in Afghanistan’s remote and mountainous province of Badakhshan are severely hampering efforts to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by disasters in the north-east of the country. OCHA has dispatched two of its staff to the region where they are in close contact...
Afghanistan: Avalanches cut off parts of drought-hit northeast
KABUL, 17 January 2012 (IRIN) - Avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan have cut off tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of people already at risk of hunger due to drought, opening the door to a potential humanitarian crisis if aid cannot reach them, says a provincial official. "If the snow...